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Image description: Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • 42m Just bought a new PC laptop and it won't let me use it unless I create a Microsoft account, which also means giving their Al access to my computer! This is messed up. There used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Microsoft account. Are you seeing this too? This is not cool of Microsoft.


(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-25)

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Just tried to post to Xwitter. It won’t let me use it unless I create a Xwitter account. Which also means letting twitter cookes and algorithms track me across their site and push media at me.

Hypocrite. Doesn’t matter if it’s AI or algorithms, the end result is the same.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

Forget posting, you cant even search or view the replies to a single post without logging in like you could before Musk’s takeover

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

While valid criticism of Twitter, this is not hypocritical. There is a difference between a website that doesn’t owe you anything not letting you in, and a device you own and paid money for, not letting you in. A comparable scenario would be Twitter deciding that paying users can no longer access the website (because it’s now mobile app-only or whatever).

[–] spez_@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

My made up name for twitter. It’s unimportant.

“eX” twitter. The X also looks like a fallen over “t”, the state of twitter, IMO. Falling apart.