• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Twitter, without an account, is pretty much unusable. It doesn’t show you follow-up tweets or replies, and sometimes no tweets at all. The choice isn’t “do I access tweets using this or Twitter”, it’s “do I access tweets with this or not at all”. If there’s useful information in a tweet, I don’t have a problem using this service, even if it logs my IP - that’s a pretty normal thing for any service that is big enough to e.g. need rate limiting.

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      9 months ago

      If you already has an account in Twitter, the front-ends are irrelevant, because Musk already has your data and also see that is you, even using a front-end, except you use a VPN, strong fingerprint protection, and other measures. It’s for users without an Twitter account, to avod a data collection and tracking (way more than only the IP) when they follow a link to Twitter in a site.

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          9 months ago

          The point is, if you don’t have a Twitter account, it’s enough with your normal privacy protections you use, if you have an account too, in both cases a Twitter front-end and more an front-end for an Twitter front end is pointless.