Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
by elliekelly on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:20AM
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I don’t have Chrome installed on any of my devices but I’ve noticed when I’m on reddit.com on my iPhone it prompts me to either use the Reddit app or “continue browsing” using the Chrome app. Does Google pay for this as some sort of an advertisement? Or is Reddit incentivized in some way to plug Chrome over Safari or DDG “browser”? When I click “continue” it lets me just keep using my current browser but I always wonder if it would open in Chrome if the app were available on my device.
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
by fencepost on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:56AM
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Probably just classifies webkit based browsers as Chrome.
Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
by Kye on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:50AM
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I get a button for Safari on my iPhone and iPad.
Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
by drdeca on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:26PM
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I’m on ios using firefox (though I think I’ve heard that under the hood it is using Safari’s renderer or something like that because of application store requirements? Not sure.), and it shows the chrome logo for me, uh, when I click a link that goes to new reddit, or something.
Or, I guess when viewing through the browser window that twitter embeds?
Just now I tried viewing new.reddit in safari and it told me my browser was old (though perhaps this is because I’ve refrained from updating ios)