2023-08-27
Toneden is a website I very much dislike. The reason why is not worth discussing but yesterday I found myself, yet again, stuck in front of a download gate that would not open, because I’m not on Twitter.
Toneden allows you to log into the site using various 3rd party services: SoundCloud, Spotify, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc.
The service you use for the first interaction with any of Toneden’s gates determines what your account on the site will be called. For testing I made a new SoundCloud account and by the time I authenticated with Toneden it had created an account under that name.
So now I have an identity that Toneden knows me by, but how can I get past gates that I am not qualified to open?
No harm in at least trying…
Well that was easy :)
The only service this did indeed not work for was Facebook. Maybe I’ll figure out a way around it (without creating an account because f*** Meta), but that’s not exactly a priority right now. The number of gates that want you to sign into Facebook is very small.
Might turn this into a small web service at some point, who knows.