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 : https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/age-verification-bypass/
💻 Source : https://github.com/helloyanis/age-verification-bypass
Basically, 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!! 🦊🧡
No, that’s the wrong approach—it just shows that you’re willing to support the surveillance apparatus without protest by voluntarily showing them ways to circumvent it.
The right approach is (to avoid using services like Twitter, etc., altogether) to educate the masses about the consequences. To encourage the masses to take to the streets. To put pressure on politicians!
People also wanted to show their displeasure by telling the masses to use a VPN to get around it… That move was bound to backfire, too. It’s foolish to draw the masses’ attention to this—while their privacy is just as important, it’s precisely because of the attention these issues attract that such actions ALWAYS backfire.