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Comment by Akronymus | Hacker News Reader

I, not having a twitter account, literally can't navigate through the tweets to read them.

What GP said doesn't seem condescending.

I too am without a Twitter account. I am using Chrome on a laptop and had 0 difficulty reading this thread. What specifically is your issue?

(This is a direct question, not sarcasm)

Using Edge without any extensions, I also can't see the thread without logging in. Only the first two tweets.

But I can see everything using Firefox (with lots of extensions). So not sure if it's browser or extension dependent. Annoying either way.

I think this is hitting it. I do have ad-blockers extensions on, so that could be what's helping in this case. Also other people pointed out that it sucks on mobile (which I can confirm is an issue).

Was just curious since I (weirdly) only ever look at twitter in a browser

A modal that pops up on any action taken that prompts me to loging, where dismissing it navigates me back to where I was before opening it.

This might be a mobile-only issue, but when clicking the post to see the rest of the thread, a full screen modal pops up forcing a sign-in. Twitter now requires a phone number to create an account, meaning that to read the whole thread I need to give Twitter my mobile number which feels a little weird.

For now, it looks like blocking all cookies on Twitter solves this problem.

> but I guess that's too 1999 for the author

This is incredibly condescending.

If you’re made out of paper tissue

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