Yeah cuz X is fucking shitty, why would I want to give them any traffic?
You're giving them attention, thus validating their existence and their numbers.
“It’s ok to do bad things to people/things I don’t like”
Feels good when you get to dish it out doesn’t it?
Then... don't? If it sucks so much why do you need to read the tweets?
Great take: "This private website is owned by a man I don't like, so I refuse to pay for it - or even give it the possibility to monetize my traffic with ads!"
Still quite mainstream take: "... so I'll use an adblocker on it"
Immature take: "This private website that I hate and boycott is also an important part of our culture, but the posts on it are too important and valuable to ignore, so I'll use a proxy to scrape it"