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Did they properly remove it or does no one there even know it was/is happening. They didn’t shut it down, the seem to have left the lights on with nobody home.
by avs733 3y ago
Did they properly remove it or does no one there even know it was/is happening. They didn’t shut it down, the seem to have left the lights on with nobody home.
Bigger picture - given the role news making and sharing in real time has always played in Twitter, it seems logical that services which may not provide obvious returns but which build a platform that journalists find useful would help do that.
- stathibus 3y agoI agree, it seems like they left it to rot instead of shutting it down. But again it is irrelevant to the business so who cares?
- rmwaite 3y agoMy understanding is the onion service was launched to provide access for people in places where Twitter is blocked. How is this "irrelevant to the business"?
- pests 3y ago"Profit over everything." I think it was laudable that Twitter ran one in the first place. Sad to see it languish.
- dfadsadsf 3y agoWhat's benefit of onion service vs run of the mill VPN? I assume if you can access onion, you should also be able to access VPN
- anonym29 3y agoI'm not someone who's ever used the onion service, but as someone who accesses the site regularly over VPN, I can testify that it's a huge PITA. Tons of very aggressive captcha-type challenges (various tasks, never simple text recognition, but not Google ReCaptcha), often 5, 7, or 10 to be allowed to proceed.
- depereo 3y agoIf it's a safety mechanism that people relied on, leaving it to rot and getting people in the habit of clicking through on an expired or invalid certificate warning is irresponsible. A degraded service can be worse than an offline one.