Twitter (twitter.com)
“Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called ‘tweets’”. – Source
Ethical design violations
(Learn more about Ethical Design.)
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tracker
Monetises you.
Decentralised alternatives
Decentralised, free and open alternatives that adhere better to the Ethical Design Manifesto:
Block rule
Although the content itself is allowed to load, we block cookies to make sure that it does not track people.
- trigger:
- url-filter: twitter.com
- unless-domain: *twitter.com
- action:
- type: block-cookies
On Twitter.com
Remove advertising.
- trigger:
- url-filter: twitter.com
- load-type: first-party
- action:
- selector: .promoted-tweet, .pixel-promoted-tweet
- type: css-display-none
Remove link to advertise on Twitter and thus contribute to their tracking.
- trigger:
- url-filter: twitter.com
- load-type: first-party
- action:
- selector: .Footer-adsModule
- type: css-display-none
Prevalence
Pandemic: found on 12.9% of surveyed sites (942 instances observed).
Notes
- “Tweets can be embedded on other sites as content” Source
About Better
Better is a Safari content blocker for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It protects you from trackers and malvertising by enforcing the principles of Ethical Design.