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spicyjpegtoday at 3:27 PM1 replyview on HN

A particularly worrying trend that keeps spreading is the one of restricting significant amounts of (often non-financial) functionality to the apps only, gated behind your phone passing device integrity checks, in what seems to be a poorly thought out attempt at blocking all forms of scraping and automation (AI or not). The worst offender right now is probably Twitter, which alongside the recent Nitter cease-and-desist now appears to require client integrity on all logged out access.


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inigyoutoday at 3:48 PM

You can just make an account on a phone and give the login info to Nitter (your own instance), it still works.