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nixosbestosyesterday at 8:38 PM9 repliesview on HN

1. I don't believe you. Or at best, they're A/Bing you and letting you read a tiny modicum of content before forcing you to login. Actually, I'll donate $250 to a charity of your choice if you show me you on x.com mobile browser, logged out, and then load that link. *Any charity you want.*

2. I never said that. Weird that you would feel the need to put words in my mouth. Why might that be?

GOD I LOVE HN, I CANT REPLY NOW. WHY DO I BOTHER? Since I can't reply, and I was wrong: https://files.catbox.moe/kksyqz.png


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WalterGRyesterday at 8:49 PM

> Actually, I'll donate $250 to a charity of your choice if you show me you on x.com mobile browser, logged out, and then load that link.

Sure.

https://waltergr.com/misc/hn-scrap-on-x/1.png

https://waltergr.com/misc/hn-scrap-on-x/2.png

https://waltergr.com/misc/hn-scrap-on-x/3.png

The first image is what I see when I visit the page; the second when I dismiss the dialog. The third image is what happens when you take a screenshot of a web page on iOS and save "Full Page", which is why you don't see Chrome's UI or the iOS status bar.

> *Any charity you want.*

I choose Habitat for Humanity.

Edit: Good on ya for following through!

QuantumNomad_yesterday at 8:58 PM

I dislike X and normally use xcancel instead of giving them traffic.

But what you said is not my experience with x.com on mobile the few times I’ve accidentally visited a link from it.

It will show the first post in the thread and some nag popups, but it will let me read it if it’s all in the first post in the thread and not split up across a bunch of posts.

Here is a screen recording from my phone where I visit the Twitter.com link from this thread. The video link expires is 2 days.

https://streamable.com/5bvhdz

The whole text Marlin wrote is in the first post in the thread and therefore fully readable without logging in.

Donate to one of the following:

- https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/donate/

- https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/

- https://immigrantjustice.org/ways-to-help/

sillysaurusxyesterday at 8:51 PM

I opened a fresh instance of Tor browser and went to https://x.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491

I got https://i.imgur.com/JCeLEgG.png which is readable.

Then I enabled mobile browser using devtools and got https://i.imgur.com/ryJk07p.png which is unreadable.

I think mobile vs desktop was the central confusion. Mobile is broken logged out. Desktop works ok.

registeredforyoyesterday at 8:56 PM

Works for me

https://imgur.com/a/w8HYdgz

valleyeryesterday at 10:33 PM

Hey, good for you for following through.

dgellowyesterday at 8:54 PM

I can also read without being logged in, on mobile

fragmedeyesterday at 8:54 PM

https://imgur.com/a/nDcCuPd

I (still) like the EFF.