Any website that needs me to create an account to look at something can go fuck itself honestly…
NY times gets me every time
Always says I’ve hit the free article limit. Never read an article on it ever.
Most news sites that give you “x free articles per month” use cookies to identify by how many you’ve read so simply opening in a private tab almost always resets the counter
Archive.is works, there’s even a Firefox addon for it
Archive.ph has you covered
And Instagram. Their website won’t even load on iOS, it’s just a blank white screen.
You know what will always be safe to send people? Fediverse links! Our shit actually works and won’t scare people away.
Or a screenshot. Please send me a screenshot instead of a link to whatever you’re going to show me.
And tiktok. I can’t see any of those things when it’s a link.
I feel like Tiktok is one of the few that does work without an account.
This is a problem in instant messaging. In situations where I would have linked to a page containing an image, I’ve been in the habit of saving the image and sending it to the other person directly. It’s faster. And I’ll be honest I’m not writing attributions or credits when I do that unless they actually ask for the source. It would be better if everyone shared things by their actual original source, but like I said it’s faster. Youtube is one of the only mainstream commercial sites still decent for this.
Applies to Quora as well when I search something up to find an answer and Quora is the first result.
Girlfriend ain’t had period since she got pregat
You used to be able to bypass this by putting a ? At the end of the url, not sure if it still works, but I used to use that trick a lot
Use nitter.net
Honestly, it’s on the same level as auto playing audio used to be for me. Insta-close.
Does that still work after all of this?
They fixed it recently I believe.
Oh that is cool i will have to give it a try.
And pinterest
image search something
most results are that site
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DuckDuckGo still lets you search, view and save images without going to the webpage.
Better privacy too.
Yeah, Google should really derank Pinterest for their BS. It’s ruined image search.
Oh yeah, I haven’t visited Twitter since they added this. I have an account, I just can’t be bothered to log in.
I have an extension that redirects all tweets to nitter so I don’t have to deal with that log in screen
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What does that do?
It’s an extension that redirects websites like YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok to alternative frontends
Nah, I won’t be able to tell my friends I can’t see their link, so they won’t be fed up with twitter
After 15 years my wife still sends me FB links and i reply that i don’t have FB.
Nitter still works y’all…
Yeah but then I have to look at Twitter. Gross.
NSFW links don’g anymore. My favorite artists are either stuck or moving elsewhere.
Remember when Elon was protecting the town square or some shit?
It applies to everything nowadays… except for the fediverse.
It’s extremely common, but there are still a few sites left that won’t force you to log in. YouTube is one such example, though of course it has its own problems too.
I don’t think YouTube could handle the burden.
I just think it’s a matter of time. It will happen, sooner or later.
I thought they undid that after a few days?
It keeps happening intermittently for me. Sometimes it asks for a log in and sometimes allows me to see it.
I can never view the replies though.
