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The days of the “@ blocked you” page appear to be over. X owner Elon Musk announced a new change toallowing blocked users to see posts of the accounts that blocked them.

Blocked accounts still won’t be able to interact with those accounts but they’ll be able to see their posts. A source from X toldthe new blocked access feature is being implemented because users can already see and interact with accounts that have blocked them by switching to a non-blocked account. Musk has wanted to disable the block feature on X for awhile now. More than a year ago, he first expressed

except for direct messages. He wrote that blocking would become “deleted as a ‘feature’” as well as saying “It makes no sense.”announced it would implement the blocked viewer change to the platform without including a solid implementation or rollout date. The post said the change would be implemented to give users with blocked accounts the ability to “identify and report any potential bad content that you previously could not view.

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