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Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (11 children)

How does Pinterest get around this then? They pollute image searches like crazy, and require you to login to see anything. At least they did, I blocked them from searches so maybe it's different now.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Easy - detect if you're getting accessed by a search crawler or a human. Serve a full page or just a login request.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So how can a user pretend to be a web crawler?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This browser addon can spoof useragents:https://add0n.com/useragent-switcher.html

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