So, I saw this story and I typed a comment about how it was pretty much guaranteed (given Musk’s cutting of the engineering department and the scale of Twitter’s operation) that this would cause some slight amount of breakage for the forseeable future, and the unfixable and unflattering nature of the ensuing jank would be the nail in the coffin for Twitter (which for some reason still is home to a lot of journalists and primary sources and etc even to this day in its wrecked-up form).
Then I thought, you know what, I don’t actually know that that’s how it’ll happen, and deleted the comment and moved on with my day.
And then just now I just tried to click on a Twitter link, and saw a black page with this:
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
(Button: “Try Again”)
⚠️ Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com
Oh shit, it must be Firefox’s fault! Yeah, must be causing issues. My bad man, you’re right; I guess I will need to switch browsers now so I can have the privilege of using Twitter.
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So, I saw this story and I typed a comment about how it was pretty much guaranteed (given Musk’s cutting of the engineering department and the scale of Twitter’s operation) that this would cause some slight amount of breakage for the forseeable future, and the unfixable and unflattering nature of the ensuing jank would be the nail in the coffin for Twitter (which for some reason still is home to a lot of journalists and primary sources and etc even to this day in its wrecked-up form).
Then I thought, you know what, I don’t actually know that that’s how it’ll happen, and deleted the comment and moved on with my day.
And then just now I just tried to click on a Twitter link, and saw a black page with this:
Oh shit, it must be Firefox’s fault! Yeah, must be causing issues. My bad man, you’re right; I guess I will need to switch browsers now so I can have the privilege of using Twitter.
Firefox enhanced tracking protection is pretty based here if you ask me
Firefox: