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Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets
(techcrunch.com)
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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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.
Easy - detect if you're getting accessed by a search crawler or a human. Serve a full page or just a login request.
So how can a user pretend to be a web crawler?
This browser addon can spoof useragents:https://add0n.com/useragent-switcher.html