I added Twitter to my extension to bypass age verification!Hi! If you don't know me, I made an #opensource #browserextension for #firefox to skip age verification screens on many platforms!Recently, #Twitter (yes, I'm not calling it X!) sent a cease and deceist letter to #Nitter that allowed you to browse privately. I think this sucks, so now if you want to see an age restricted post you can use my extension to show it! (Still needs to be logged in to an account however, otherwise twitter won't return the tweet data)🧩 Extension : addons.mozilla.org/addon/age-všŸ’» Source : github.com/helloyanis/age-veriBasically, it works by taking all the data from age restricted posts and re-arranging it in the way that regular posts do!If you're still on twitter (why!) feel free to give it a try, and give me some feedback! Thanks!! 🦊🧔@privacy@programming.dev @privacy@lemmy.ml #ageverification #privacy #foss #web

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Sorry but I don't follow, what is your conclussion then, just don't get around the measures? You are saying that bypassing protections helps them fix the issues allowing the bypass by making them more visible, so what even is your concern if you are against tools to bypass them? You won't be able to bypass anything without them in the first place, so what are you trying to say? That we should keep the tools to a select group of people and not make them as broadly accessible?

If so, I oppose this thought quite a lot, as I believe that anti-surveillance tools should be as widespread as possible, to make it completely impractical to crack them down due to the sheer volume of people using them. Build more Tor nodes, radical servers, open-source alternatives and such.

And while some of the hacks being well known makes them easier to notice and fix, there is also more people who finds them valuable and can help in making them work. I don't ever see ads, and adblocking is very widely known and functional no matter how hard the baddies try. After the Nitter cease and desist I made my own instance at https://stopusingx.com to fight back, and I would never have done this if it wasn't out of spite. So I also feel that spreading concern and conclict is useful to make people aware of the issues we face.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Ok, I get you mean, but what is the point in waiting? You rightly said that the laws will come one way or another, so why even wait for them? The sooner the struggle begins and the more the public is aware, the bigger pur chance to fight back. If we wait until the thing is illegal to act, anyone trying to resist will have a harder time, because they will be doing it alone.

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