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- trey-jonesRegardless of the legality of the service:I always use xcancel instead of X. I don't have a twitter account and I don't want to sign in. I just occasionally want to read what some people had to say about something. Even this is usually a mistake. It's probably better taken as entertainment.My point is: companies stop making your product suck, and people won't have a reason to try and fix it for you.
- zqwt3kThanks Elon, now we know that scraping is illegal! Very good to clarify that for future proceedings against the AI thieves.
- AerocatiaI have been suspended from Ex-Twitter for months for "inauthentic behavior" despite only ever just using the site normally. I would very much like to have nothing to do with this site anymore, but unfortunately many people and organizations from before Elon took it over still post there and I can't make them all move to another site (and the same site for that matter), so here we are.
- pamcakeOf more concern, the Nitter github repository was permanently archived a couple of days ago.https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
- rob74Maybe instead of trying to get rid of services that provide a more convenient access to X to non-logged-in users, they should realize that there is a real market behind these services - users that will likely never sign up to X, but who want to read/watch some content without the incessant nagging and limitations that X subjects non-logged-in users to?
- newscrackerThis may be a situation where revealing a solution may end up harming it. For those who use iOS and other Apple OSes, I learned of this recently released free Safari extension called Litterbox that allows looking at one post on x.com.[1]: https://andadinosaur.com/launch-litterbox
- goda90> You can find the content you were looking for on the original website*if you log in to an accountA big reason many people use Nitter instances is that X has become very locked down for unauthenticated users.
- yoz-yWeb version of Twitter has become unusable now. So much so that I wonder why they still keep it.
- p-oFree speech absolutist, btw.
- vova_hn2Just by googling "twitter api" I am able to find an "unofficial API" (scraped, obviously), that gives you access to tweets for around $0.15/1k tweets. Which is expensive if you want to, let's say, train a model, but super cheap for a casual user.A nice UI around such API probably can be one-shotted with modern LLM-coding models and tools.Or, you can go the hard way and vibecode something around buying twitter accounts (just several bucks per each) and proxies.What I'm trying to say, that with modern tools it is incredibly easy to bypass the restrictions on reading twitter without an account, even if they manage to take down all the nitter instances, try to make finding nitter source code harder etc.
- robIMO, if you hate Elon so much, you shouldn't be visiting his website.You look very odd and silly if you still want to engage with it and just use a different UI layer (i.e., "XCancel", "Nitter".)If they want you to have an account to read the post and you want to read the post, create an account, log in, and move on. If you don't want to do that, nobody is forcing you to view a public website. There's alternatives like "Bluesky" out there that might be good for you.
- nunezit's going to be a cat and mouse game for as long as X can legally afford to keep it going (i.e. til the heat death of the universe)regardless, no matter how hard elon turns the screws on their customers, people will continue to use twitter/X because "that's where everyone is" and places like HN will continue to allow these links because "that's where the news is" despite healthier alternatives like the Mastodon network and Bluesky existing.whatever. i've redirected x to 0.0.0.0 when the first warning shot was fired and called it a day. rocks are looking like a great place to live under right about now anyway.
- 999900000999Makes sense, the legal system is pay to play.Bluesky is here anyway.Hell, you’re arguably on a Twitter alternative right now.
- bithammerthundeI think XCancel should use their momentum and set up their own social media network, instead of scrapping the domain.
- mw888So are you, dear reader, for intellectual property laws or not. I see a lot of "anti-this" sentiment confused with "anti-AI [data collection]."The consistent view is one regarding IP in general - not reverse engineering your morals based on the case.
- thesdevhttps://nitter.click still works right as rain, and so do many other Nitter instances.
- dpmartinezAre there other instances available? X can't ban them all.I wish legal issues wouldn’t exist for this project and X would stop attacking projects that provide information for free.Privacy is important more than ever as many of us don't want to login into X.
- jmclnxThis to me is a big issue. You have politicians, government entities and other public institutions posting to twitter, but to access we need to log in.There needs to be a free, non-ad, non-login environment people can use to access this information posted by public entities.This comment also applies to facebook too, which I think is even worse than twitter.
- GrimetonTheir browser verification never made it into the same room as my browser anyway...
- accountrequiredi just want to unmute the video and full screen it without logging in. i click twitter link and it is muted.
- anonundefined
- ImJamalIt just feels like every social media site is login-walling public posts. I can't think of a major social media site (reddit, Instagram, FB, Twitter, etc) that doesn't do this to varying degrees. I can only think of minor sites (bluesky, truth social, etc) that allow access.It feels like an end of an era.
- ACCount39Xitter can't make a web UI that's actually usable to save their lives - so they're going after the one platform that does with lawfare.Despicable behavior.
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- pino83There is no reason for xcancel to exist.Either you cancel X. Meaning: NOT consuming X content.Or you just visit X.com.Right? Right?