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I 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?
by stathibus 3y ago
I 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.