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BrikoX to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets

techcrunch.com

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Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets

techcrunch.com

BrikoX to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago
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Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.
  • @RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    5•2 years ago

    So how can a user pretend to be a web crawler?

    • @SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca
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      9•2 years ago

      You’re going to need a special hat.

      • possibly a cat
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        4•2 years ago

        Perhaps a safety vest as well. You know, for access.

        • @boeman@lemmy.world
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          3•2 years ago

          Adding a clipboard and a ladder will make it even more official

    • @theMightyMoonWorm@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      This browser addon can spoof useragents:https://add0n.com/useragent-switcher.html

    • @dangrousperson@vlemmy.net
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      6•2 years ago

      Ever heard of https://12ft.io/ ? It allows you to bypass alot of pay walls by basically pretending to be a search engine trying to index a website. For SEO reasons a lot of pay walled sites allow search engines to access the whole article to index. 12ft.io leverages this to show you whole articles behind paywalls. This is something you could also achieve by spoofing the User-Agent. It would probably work for things like Pinterest without an account as well, but that’s something I have never tried (since I have no interest in the cancer that is Pinterest).

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