Tell HN: Elon Musk Removes Login Prompt for Twitter

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33769715

by romeros • 4 years ago

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hungbox• 4 years ago

He's doing frontend web development now too? Truly a man of Starkian intellect.

MBCook• 4 years ago

You mean the thing where Twitter used to constantly nag people to login?

Ok. That’s less user hostile.

But is that really worthy of a discussion?

geoah• 4 years ago

The less sites use such dark patterns the better. And a beads up is nice so people like me who avoided clicking twitter links because I couldn’t be bothered with their gated content might give it another shot. Now if reddit does the same it would be great!

BulgarianIdiot2• 4 years ago

If we have to be objective, that's a positive step. Of course, coming on the whim of a mercurial CEO, he may re-add it tomorrow.

sourcecodeplz• 4 years ago

Of course it is. Geez.

ZeroGravitas• 4 years ago

Someone claimed he'd already removed it a while back, then I saw it again.

Possibly it's just not consistent (and/or broken)?

vdfs• 4 years ago

Note that if you are using uBlock Origin some lists might actually be the ones removing that login screen

bgoldste• 4 years ago

I hope other social media companies follow suit. As someone who tries to stay off social media as much as possible, I find those login walls really annoying.

On the flip side, they help keep me more fully off of those sites..

32gbsd• 4 years ago

Despite what people say about him; hes doing gods work.

krapp• 4 years ago

What god? Loki? Mammon? Azathoth?

hobbitstan• 4 years ago

George Hortz said that was one of the first things he wanted to get rid of so maybe it’s not Elons win.

BulgarianIdiot2• 4 years ago

Because of course George Hotz decides alone to do that without asking anyone...

Tell HN: Elon Musk Removes Login Prompt for Twitter

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