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by jamesear 857 days ago
> Make an account. Only follow those guys. You don’t even need to include your real name man.

I understand this is easy, and others won't mind doing this. That's fine.

I object to the idea of needing an account solely to read heavily linked, otherwise free, content.

Besides, my browser doesn't store logins/cookies, so it'd be another login I have to do on each session.

> You want to use twitter no account in the age of AI. It don’t work like that anymore

So be it, I guess? The content isn't that valuable to me anyway.
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j1elo 857 days ago
> my browser doesn't store logins/cookies, so it'd be another login I have to do on each session.

To be fair, that's a burden you imposed on yourself.

But I agree that requiring an account just to browse and read content, is BS.

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Liquix 857 days ago
no, adtech and walled gardens collecting your browsing data and monetizing/weaponizing it against you is the imposition. refusing to provide this data by wiping cookies is not a "burden" this guy chose to impose on himself for fun, it is the logical answer to the adtech companies' hostile action.
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j1elo 856 days ago
adtech monetizes your browsing data by collecting it across lots of sites we visit, and aggregating them all to build a profile.

It's true that wiping cookies was the most effective to prevent building up this trail of cookies from every visited site adhered to those ad companies.

But this seems to me like a solved issue since Mozilla deployed their Total Cookie Protection [1] with Firefox i.e. each domain has its own isolated set of cookies.

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-...

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