Ask HN: Why is HN replacing Twitter URLs with canonical URLs requiring login

Heykuki News

18 points

3 years ago

Earlier today I submitted a URL from twitter.com because it was the URL for the content that I wanted to share. That URL was rewritten in the form:

https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login....

This causes fellow users to have to login to X / Twitter to have to view the content/tweet.

Why is this happening?

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