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Comment by westhom | Hacker News Reader

Thank you. It’s infuriating to use Twitter as an unauthenticated user these days. If you scroll down far enough you get the uncloseable login gateway pop up, and I can never tell if it’s triggered by reaching the end of a thread, or after X posts in a thread.

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Here's a trick to read the bird site without logging in - whenever that pops up, pick your choice of "Log in" or "Sign up" (I prefer the latter, I like to imagine it helps to scramble someone's analytics) then click the 'X' in the corner, and the popup goes away for a while.

Here's another trick:

Just use another fucking interface.

Threadreader is great for threads. If you're following a specific account or want to run some searches, Nitter.

The latter also supports RSS feeds, so you can follow a profile in your newsreader.

Some popular sites have alternative interfaces, e.g. Twitter → Nitter. They are a much better user experience if you just want to lurk. Configure your browser to automatically redirect:

• https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect#custom-inst...

• https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ (use for Imgur → Rimgo until Privacy Redirect has it)

Nitter's settings page lists a bunch:

Youtube -> Invidious or Piped

Twitter -> Nitter

Instagram -> Bibliogram

Reddit -> Teddit

Most or all have numerous hosts and you can pick the one(s) that are most convenient or memorable to you. It's also possible to host these yourself, and I've suggested in the past that HN might consider doing so for Twitter specifically. Reddit possibly as well. (The others are fairly low-traffic on HN.)

Quora would be a nice addition to the list.

https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

I saw that.

Chrome/Android doesn't suppport extensions.

Normalising use of alternatives in links and the like (which privacy-redirect may well do) also helps raise awareness and profile of the alternatives.

That said, thanks.

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