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These apps doesn’t help with addictive behavior because they absolutely remove everything wrong from these networks and gives me a stellar user experience.
Kinda makes me wonder how hard it would be to anti-optimize a site so that if you have a twitter / FB / youtube / etc account and are not using private browsing the pages load slow or incomplete etc. Presumably most of use crotchety enough to use such a thing in anger have already bowed out and fallen off the web already.
I guess there isn't much we can do besides creating an account in 30 seconds and not using it, it's not that bad
> Unfortunately twitter is going the direction of quora, pinterest, facebook, and medium Don’t forget Reddit. Reddit’s login pop-ups are more aggressive than Twitter’s for me. > Now you can perhaps read ten tweets or replies to a linked tweet without an account before the same thing occurs Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think any company is obligated to provide unlimited access for free without an account.…
Why? You can show people the same advertising either way so signifying up with a junk e-mail address and forcing a login is really kind of a pointless hoop.
I guess there isn't much we can do besides creating an account in 30 seconds and not using it, it's not that bad
> Unfortunately twitter is going the direction of quora, pinterest, facebook, and medium Don’t forget Reddit. Reddit’s login pop-ups are more aggressive than Twitter’s for me. > Now you can perhaps read ten tweets or replies to a linked tweet without an account before the same thing occurs Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think any company is obligated to provide unlimited access for free without an account.…
You can't just make throwaway accounts on Twitter though, they ban them after a few hours if you don't verify by phone number. So really it's forcing you to hand over a lot of personal information just to read what is essentially a few forum posts.
I do occasionally follow a twitter link but these days I just skip by them on HN (or just read the comments) and most other places. I even have an account but don't bother to log in. I find the website atrociously slow anyways and I don't think 280 characters or whatever they are at now is an enjoyable form of content.
> Unfortunately twitter is going the direction of quora, pinterest, facebook, and medium Don’t forget Reddit. Reddit’s login pop-ups are more aggressive than Twitter’s for me. > Now you can perhaps read ten tweets or replies to a linked tweet without an account before the same thing occurs Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think any company is obligated to provide unlimited access for free without an account.…
> need to become a user of the website Why? You can show people the same advertising either way so signifying up with a junk e-mail address and forcing a login is really kind of a pointless hoop.
I see this as a feature and not a bug now that I no longer have an account on Twitter. If I absolutely want to read a tweet, I can. But the barrier to entry is a _good_ thing to me.
I can read the one linked Tweet from some article or post and then return to my life. It’s blissful.