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So that explains why I’ve noticed twitter stopped working with view-source a bit ago. I was curious as to why it required to redirect on itself, or a valid referrer from itself, before letting me get anywhere.



Another reason for the redirect would be to mitigate the relentless web scraping which occurs. Some people just don't want to connect their apps with keys.


Any malicious scraper can defuse this by sending the proper referrer header.




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