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Told ya Twitter was intelligence.

Twitter is now blocking anonymous browsing entirely, demanding that everyone be logged in, as far as I can tell.

Can anyone not logged in view this, for example?

https://twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1674586045952806917

I noticed that last night. At that time, I was able to use nitter.net , but I've been unable to find a working nitter instance today. Wonder if they're blocking nitter or if nitter collapsed due to traffic overload...

Patrick says

Twitter is now blocking anonymous browsing entirely, demanding that everyone be logged in, as far as I can tell.

Can anyone not logged in view this, for example?

https://twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1674586045952806917

I’m Black and I don’t need Affirmative Action to succeed!

If you think black people cant succeed in a merit based system then you are racist.

I’m a former foster kid and I created a successful pancake company called http://cousints.com/ because of hard work!

Patrick says

Twitter is now blocking anonymous browsing entirely, demanding that everyone be logged in, as far as I can tell.

Can anyone not logged in view this, for example?

https://twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1674586045952806917

I can't.

I think this is a foolish decision, because now you can't embed video. Well, that site is dead to me.

Here, I just setup an account on Twitter:

mail: jstosselberg@mailinator.com
user: @stosselber17036
pass: 1VeryEasyPW!

Have fun, it's an entirely throwaway account. You can lock me out of it if you want and take it over if you like, just don't.

Booger says

I’m Black and I don’t need Affirmative Action to succeed!

Oh, but you do. Don't you realize you're an inferior creature that needs the kind gentle guiding hand of your superiors to do well? You're oppressed by everybody!!

Also, my family used to make maple syrup for commercial production. I wonder if I could hook you up with a co-opt? Excess syrup is combined and bottled, but it's generally not "the best". Also, Maple Syrup changes from year to year and from location to location, like wine. The minerals in the soil, and the conditions of the thaw effect flavor.

You probably wouldn't want to bottle it yourself, you have to heat it to near boiling, although I don't know the temperature now. It's like 200F, and it's grueling work, trust me, I did it for over a decade. Part of the flavor the syrup is that is is partially caramelized. Some guy at some event had the great idea of boiling it in a vacuum chamber (i.e. avoiding heating it at all), and demonstrated what he produced. It tasted like simple syrup, basically no flavor other than sweetness. It wasn't "light amber" is was "no amber". There is an art to making the stuff.

richwicks says

Here, I just setup an account on Twitter:

mail: jstosselbergmailinator.com
user: stosselber17036
pass: 1VeryEasyPW!

Have fun, it's an entirely throwaway account. You can lock me out of it if you want and take it over if you like, just don't.

Lol, this is great! Thanks @richwicks

Booger says

I’m Black and I don’t need Affirmative Action to succeed!

If you think black people cant succeed in a merit based system then you are racist.

I’m a former foster kid and I created a successful pancake company called http://cousints.com/ because of hard work!

I like this guy!

Looks like you can still embed tweets if you go to publish.twitter.com

I’m Black and I don’t need Affirmative Action to succeed!

If you think black people cant succeed in a merit based system then you are racist.

I’m a former foster kid and I created a successful pancake company called https://t.co/JOaGaqulgw because of hard work!

NOT BECAUSE… pic.twitter.com/Fv8CSP8RR2

— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) June 30, 2023

It would be interesting to know exactly how they are doing the blocking.

Patrick says

It would be interesting to know exactly how they are doing the blocking.

Oh, you know. You block google from searching this site. All they are doing is putting conditions on the search. You need a cookie to see anything, and if you don't have a valid one, it won't show you.

My prediction is this will be a short lived experiment. This will be used to increase the user count, but it will end after a point.

BTW - sign up is a bitch. It took 1/2 an hour. I went through 3 tests to verify I was "human" and the tests are slowed down purposely, so once you answer one question, you wait for another - and the tests... It's not exactly clear what they want you to do initially.

You can sign up with a mailinator account - try it.

Twitter will probably end up blocking the new account you made, but I'm enjoying using it in the meantime, just because they don't want me to use it.

richwicks says

You block google from searching this site.

I thought I did, but Google does not respect robots.txt and was indexing patrick.net anyway!

I'll write a post about that:

https://patrick.net/post/1379684/2023-07-01-google-does-not-respect-robots-txt

Patrick says

Twitter will probably end up blocking the new account you made, but I'm enjoying using it in the meantime, just because they don't want me to use it.

richwicks says

You block google from searching this site.

I thought I did, but Google does not respect robots.txt and was indexing patrick.net anyway!

I'll write a post about that:

https://patrick.net/post/1379684/2023-07-01-google-does-not-respect-robots-txt

Block via IP - want a list?

See this: https://samoyed.dynu.net/misses/

That's every single IP that has connected to my machine without a reason to connect to my machine for over 2 years, so it's bots and viruses. I run a cgi script, if it's not an IP I recognize, I log the connection. That includes every search engine, to discriminate between different ones, that will take time.

There is nothing at the root level of my domain, so if somebody is connecting to it, they shouldn't be.

Thanks!

How did they even find your IP? Just scanning them all?

Patrick says

Thanks!

How did they even find your IP? Just scanning them all?

Everybody is on a list once you have a website name, even dynamic names. I record what website name they used, and if they used an IP only, I record that as well.

If you look for "address" in the files, you can see what they were searching for. If you want, I can zip up the whole mess and give it to you.

IP addresses that only have a single entry, most likely spam bots - IP addresses with many entries, likely web crawlers. Every time I'm searched, I record it, so the larger the file, the more likely it's a search engine.

I doubt that.

I think he just wanted more logged in users because they are more valuable to advertisers and to the CIA/FBI/NSA. I know that they still infest Twitter.

So he makes the site require login for a while, people log in, then he drops it, but most people will stay logged in.

Twitter is still posting all-time records for user-seconds of engagement. Only "woke" companies aren't advertising, and they can't afford to not be in the Marketing game for long.

Unless you make Bud Light. Then you're screwed.

rocketjoe79 says

Twitter is still posting all-time records for user-seconds of engagement. Only "woke" companies aren't advertising, and they can't afford to not be in the Marketing game for long.

I've said this a few times, but this web browser just blocks all advertisements:

https://brave.com/

Brave also has a wonderful feature where you can right-click and mouse over items to select the ones you want to block.

Very useful for blocking the donation nagware parts of wikipedia, for example.

Hahah:



Best part is the comments. Only possible with the new Twitter. Before, all these folks would have had their accounts suspended or even banned.

A lot of propaganda is botspeak from programmed AI. You can tell because it is almost always quotidian, illogical and uses a lot of stock phrases. It also sometimes contradicts the message the propaganda is intended to promulgate because its a robot and doesn't givee fuckee.

I get the impression that Twitter is full of AI bots.

Patrick says

I doubt that.

I think he just wanted more logged in users because they are more valuable to advertisers and to the CIA/FBI/NSA. I know that they still infest Twitter.

So he makes the site require login for a while, people log in, then he drops it, but most people will stay logged in.

Temporary? Still ongoing.

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/worlds-most-evil-corporations-worried-x-might-tarnish-their-images

https://nitter.poast.org/TheInsiderPaper/status/1899926509223370868#m