yes; before twitter was locked down to show tweets only when logged in, it was even easier, one could simply switch the browser to incognito mode to view the tweet anyway 

 Everyone on X has an alt. 😅 Completely pointless and childish.

They want everyone on the planet to see, except These 20 Naughty People. 

 yes it's kind of silly

mastodon even copied this behavior, afaik