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I can't read the link, because twitter links never work on my phone... always 'something went wrong' and saying I am rate limited.

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As far as I can tell, this is some sort of thing that Twitter does to Safari users because it can't fingerprint them well and thinks it might be abuse.

No, it's not exclusive to Safari. It happens all the time for me in Chrome on Android.

Thanks for the hint. That could be the reason I get this on nightly since .. about four weeks (or six weeks? something like that). Seems to concede with the time the new privacy protections went on by default.

It's not recent - I've had this for years.

I've only just noticed it, but mostly because I've forced myself not to install the Twitter app nor login to my account on the particular device I've been experiencing all these "Something Went Wrong" errors. I assumed it was a "feature" to encourage people to login to the app caused from a bug somewhere in the ad stack, and this seems to corroborate that hunch.

Based on referrer I think. Links from big sites like reddit or hn are often rate limited. Reloading the page wipes referrer and fixes it.

Same thing happens to me frequently. Try reloading? That usually works for me.

I block 3p JavaScript and I never seem to be able to use Twitter without multiple re-loads. So, I usually unroll threads via threadreader.

Here's the current one: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/962424365819277312.html

This happens to me every time but if I request desktop mode it always works 100%. Might be worth a try.

This is exactly why I stopped using twitter (that and no matter how many thousands of people I have in my blocklist there is a Trump tweet/comment/quote in their all the time. You can’t ever escape it).

I wonder what kind of product decisions have led to “we rather piss off and lose thousands of customers than fixing our problems”

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