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Up next: "Sorry, you need to have an active X account in order to redeem your season passes."
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That's strange, because it opens and plays fine without an account for me.
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They sometimes give a more firm account wall and sometimes let you slide a few tweets. It isn’t deterministic.
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I don't think I've ever seen this firm account wall for single tweets outside of those marked as sensitive.
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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/

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Same here, not logged in to X and works just fine with Firefox.
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Do you have uBlock Origin by any chance?
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