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[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

And Instagram. Their website won’t even load on iOS, it’s just a blank white screen.

You know what will always be safe to send people? Fediverse links! Our shit actually works and won’t scare people away.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And tiktok. I can't see any of those things when it's a link.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like Tiktok is one of the few that does work without an account.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a pain to unmute before it starts, you have a banner hiding the top and bottom screen so you only see half of the video. If it didn't work at least I would have an excuse to tell them not to send me links while being polite. (it works fine on pc though)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Or a screenshot. Please send me a screenshot instead of a link to whatever you’re going to show me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is a problem in instant messaging. In situations where I would have linked to a page containing an image, I've been in the habit of saving the image and sending it to the other person directly. It's faster. And I'll be honest I'm not writing attributions or credits when I do that unless they actually ask for the source. It would be better if everyone shared things by their actual original source, but like I said it's faster. Youtube is one of the only mainstream commercial sites still decent for this.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any website that needs me to create an account to look at something can go fuck itself honestly..

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

NY times gets me every time

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Always says I've hit the free article limit. Never read an article on it ever.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Archive.is works, there's even a Firefox addon for it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Most news sites that give you "x free articles per month" use cookies to identify by how many you've read so simply opening in a private tab almost always resets the counter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Archive.ph has you covered

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Applies to Quora as well when I search something up to find an answer and Quora is the first result.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Girlfriend ain’t had period since she got pregat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You used to be able to bypass this by putting a ? At the end of the url, not sure if it still works, but I used to use that trick a lot

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

image search something

most results are that site

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

DuckDuckGo still lets you search, view and save images without going to the webpage.

Better privacy too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Google should really derank Pinterest for their BS. It's ruined image search.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember when Elon was protecting the town square or some shit?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nitter still works y'all...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Yeah but then I have to look at Twitter. Gross.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

NSFW links don'g anymore. My favorite artists are either stuck or moving elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It applies to everything nowadays... except for the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's extremely common, but there are still a few sites left that won't force you to log in. YouTube is one such example, though of course it has its own problems too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, except YT. Basically, that is the only one I know of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think YouTube could handle the burden.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just think it's a matter of time. It will happen, sooner or later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We’ll see, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I haven't visited Twitter since they added this. I have an account, I just can't be bothered to log in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I literally cannot make an account, I've been trying for years, it doesn't accept any of my email addresses or phone numbers.. I think I'd have to make a gmail just to make a twitter

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I have an extension that redirects all tweets to nitter so I don't have to deal with that log in screen

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that still work after all of this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They fixed it recently I believe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh that is cool i will have to give it a try.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, it's on the same level as auto playing audio used to be for me. Insta-close.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I thought they undid that after a few days?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Nope still does it for me. Good riddance honestly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought they did too, but I just tried it and I got the login page. [Edit]: Maybe they just did it for Google and a few other big companies?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It keeps happening intermittently for me. Sometimes it asks for a log in and sometimes allows me to see it.

I can never view the replies though.

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