Inconsistent paywalls are a product now. The Times (the original) has shoe-horned in some kind of AI paywall [1] which claims to maximise conversions by varying how much you get to see and for how long. It pissed me off because I was logged-in to my subscription but it was blocking me anyway.
https://xcancel.com/Suzierizzo1/status/2040864617467924865
There you go!
Original reporting source:
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/dodgers-fan-printed...
That's strange, because it opens and plays fine without an account for me.
They sometimes give a more firm account wall and sometimes let you slide a few tweets. It isn’t deterministic.
I don't think I've ever seen this firm account wall for single tweets outside of those marked as sensitive.
Inconsistent paywalls are a product now. The Times (the original) has shoe-horned in some kind of AI paywall [1] which claims to maximise conversions by varying how much you get to see and for how long. It pissed me off because I was logged-in to my subscription but it was blocking me anyway.
[1]: https://www.zuora.com/products/zephr/
Same here, not logged in to X and works just fine with Firefox.
Do you have uBlock Origin by any chance?
Up next: "Sorry, you need to have an active X account in order to redeem your season passes."