Has Twitter removed the ability to browse while logged out?
The behavior I am seeing is demonstrated here: https://gfycat.com/thornyfeistyleafcutterant
I am always returned to the page that I was linked to if I try to browse elsewhere on the site.
Yes, extremely annoying at first. Same thing FB did with Insta. I guess it's good because I don't go to IG anymore and I don't click on links because half the time they're gated. Twitter will follow the same pattern for me.
I noticed the same behavior on my phone. I think you can still navigate and it just shows the popup on every navigation?
Twitter for me is in the category of if I click on a link and get no resistance then I'll look at it, but any friction at all and I don't really care. Same as any full page popup, the site better have something I really want and not just be something I scroll to mechanically for endorphins, or I'm not going to bother accepting cookies or closing the enter your email email modal or whatever.
I removed all cached data. Apparently it solves this particular issue.
So I think this is either very bad programming, or a very bad A/B test.
Yes. Personally it means I will be using it even less. Win-win.
One less site to visit every day. Same thing happened with Reddit, which is unusable on mobile web without login.
Dev tools, app, delete cookies and local storage values. Refresh. Like a new born browser session.
I don’t like this trend of soft auth walls on subsequent visits to encourage login. We are rapidly losing the “anonymous” (as in no username tagged in access.log lines, not really anonymous) read only web. It is important! Not every possible action needs to be registered for your users behavioral models.
Best decision they ever made. Now the rare chance I click on a Twitter link I don’t have to read it :) thanks Twitter!
A workaround trick I have found is using private browsing. Possibly clearing your cookies for Twitter could work also.
Yep noticed it today. I'm just going to stop visiting twitter links like I stopped visiting pinterest
LinkedInitis. It's spreading.
I've stopped using twitter myself due to the fact they've locked me out when I didn't give them a phone number. As far as I can tell, that's the only reason they've locked my account.
This is also happening for me. Its funny because its making a lot of posts on HN useless now as they are multi-tweet threads, which you can no longer see if you aren't a Twitter user.
IP blocked for non-residential areas eq. VPN/datacenters are blocked by loginwall. This is super stupid idea to fight with web scrappers.
The issue with web-scrappers comes from API limits: none wanted to parse twitter web if you can get everything from API for a reasonable price.
I don't think API access brings lots of money 5% increase in profit costs customer experience on mobile.
Yes. The trend is definitely towards alternate frontends for these services.
Use nitter.net
Yes. I guess it's time for me to say goodbye to Twitter.
This isn't new for any social media app nowadays
Yes. Including private mode.
But not on my phone.
Due to the lack of complaints I thought perhaps uBlock.
But maybe it's IP based, or since opening Firefox it doesn't do it perhaps it's a count.
Yes.
But hey, you don't want to miss what's happening, do you? People on Twitter are the first to know!