I'm using Nitter redirect[1] for Firefox, so that any Twitter link automatically links me to the nitter.net frontend for that reason.

[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...

Tbf its hard to find specific things/tweets you're looking for on Twitter even if you do have an account.

At least that's how it was until I stopped logging in about a year ago. But I can still access linked content. On mobile, I just have to paste the url into the browser address bar and it works.

> But I can still access linked content.

Yeah but it feels like navigating around gets weird if you're not logged, because any link from the direct-linked content (original tweet for RTs, comments, etc...) will navigate then immediately hide the information behind a big popup, and if you close that popup... it sends you back where you came from.

It's a recent anti-pattern they added. Possible solution: replace the "twitter.com" portion of the URL by "nitter.net" and you won't be nagged by things like that.

It's definitely a weird and (anonymous-)user-hostile design, but here's a trick: reloading the page instead of closing the popup does load the content without the popup. (Until you navigate to the next link, of course, after which you'll need another reload.)

Most Nitter instances end up rate-limited and are unusable at least half of the time in my experience, this isn't really a practical solution.

Try a Nitter instance.

> too bold

Well, they work as long as the company is powerful. And push people away as soon as the power reduces.

It's one of those policies that provide metastability, but increase the rate of change once the stability is lost. Powerful people normally like them, as they care much less about rate of change than about conserving power.