inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-213 hours agoXCancel also served cease and desist letter from Xitterxcancel.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1383arrow-down17
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minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 hours agoCould anyone explain what this xcancel is/does for someone who never used twitter?
minus-squareinari@piefed.zipOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·6 hours agoIt displays tweets without generating traffic to Twitter
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoAh, OK. That’s why they are pissed off.
minus-squarecommunism@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·6 hours agoIt will still generate traffic to Twitter in order to fetch the tweet. It’s an alternative frontend for privacy purposes, so Twitter doesn’t get your browser fingerprint, IP address, etc. It’s all proxied through xcancel/nitter.
minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·5 hours agoHowever it generates only a fraction of the traffic that would otherwise reach twitter, and also makes it useless as it cannot be data harvested.
minus-square123@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·edit-26 hours agoAnd you don’t have to login to view stuff.
Could anyone explain what this xcancel is/does for someone who never used twitter?
It displays tweets without generating traffic to Twitter
Ah, OK. That’s why they are pissed off.
It will still generate traffic to Twitter in order to fetch the tweet. It’s an alternative frontend for privacy purposes, so Twitter doesn’t get your browser fingerprint, IP address, etc. It’s all proxied through xcancel/nitter.
However it generates only a fraction of the traffic that would otherwise reach twitter, and also makes it useless as it cannot be data harvested.
And you don’t have to login to view stuff.