Completely agree, and I'm surprised more people aren't using Tweetdeck.
As far as I can tell, using any social-media site other than with a friends-only reverse-chronological feed is just going to be a bad experience for anyone who values real engagement (i.e. not influencers or wannabes and not passive disinformation consumers). Also, any social-media site without a block button and a culture encouraging people to use it is broken too.
There are some in the Chrome Web Store too, though I don't have links.
There are more than 20 settings that can be individually enabled/disabled, so it's all up to the user how much they want.
> sketchy with the lack of details on how the click tracking removal works (the easier ways that come to mind on implementation are the same or worse for privacy)
Ah, ok. The word "sketchy" can be ambiguous. :-)
The real URL is actually already hidden in the DOM, so it's a simple matter of replacement.
I say this as someone who briefly attempted to dabble in twitter on a few occasions. I have an account. I've tweeted a few times. I now check it probably a few times a year.
Twitter's strength and "problem" (to me), is that its just a firehose of senseless data and you have to manually figure out what you want. I only started enjoying Twitter, by accident, when in college I blacklisted Facebook, Instagram and Reddit on my computer. That said, over the years I've come to prefer it's arguably web-1.0 style of discovery to the curated feeds of today.
I don't think Twitter needs the instant gratification hooks that other platforms have. Sometimes you login, and there's nothing going on.