Original reporting source:

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/dodgers-fan-printed...

Up next: "Sorry, you need to have an active X account in order to redeem your season passes."

That's strange, because it opens and plays fine without an account for me.

They sometimes give a more firm account wall and sometimes let you slide a few tweets. It isn’t deterministic.

I don't think I've ever seen this firm account wall for single tweets outside of those marked as sensitive.

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/

Same here, not logged in to X and works just fine with Firefox.

Do you have uBlock Origin by any chance?