AilliA on Nostr: X (formerly Twitter) just C&D'd Nitter / XCancel: just a lil privacy frontend for ...
X (formerly Twitter) just C&D'd Nitter / XCancel: just a lil privacy frontend for reading(!) tweets: no JS, no ads, no account, your browser never spoke to Twitter. That meant no IP tracking and no JS fingerprint. Not even posting #FreeSpeech™ - just fckg seeing someone's speech without being logged.
That's the thing they shut down.
Killing that is a new low.
Surveillance always needs fresh blood.
VPN/Tor users (like me) are probably next.
Links:
https://github.com/zedeus/nitterhttps://nitter.net/HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283Published at
2026-08-26 16:22:49 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "7f07844faacede70000e88f08c60fea897ff8449a2c114bcfc96f1e24e71dccd",
"pubkey": "ecbff9758417655ad8ba123d9e08d60d767045da22472ede86cfea8e9a2cd17c",
"created_at": 1787761369,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"imeta",
"m image/png",
"ox 0b646a383b00839da92c05b8d4f95420cadd95cf9de0d24b69a57ee32dd59583",
"size 62286",
"url https://blossom.primal.net/0b646a383b00839da92c05b8d4f95420cadd95cf9de0d24b69a57ee32dd59583.png",
"x 0b646a383b00839da92c05b8d4f95420cadd95cf9de0d24b69a57ee32dd59583"
],
[
"t",
"freespeech"
]
],
"content": "X (formerly Twitter) just C\u0026D'd Nitter / XCancel: just a lil privacy frontend for reading(!) tweets: no JS, no ads, no account, your browser never spoke to Twitter. That meant no IP tracking and no JS fingerprint. Not even posting #FreeSpeech™ - just fckg seeing someone's speech without being logged.\nThat's the thing they shut down.\nKilling that is a new low.\nSurveillance always needs fresh blood.\nVPN/Tor users (like me) are probably next.\nhttps://blossom.primal.net/0b646a383b00839da92c05b8d4f95420cadd95cf9de0d24b69a57ee32dd59583.png\nLinks: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter\nhttps://nitter.net/\nHN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283",
"sig": "3a178e0fd9d506860f174a1dceff3f127f31ecf9f7bf25ff6b80a2c470137fa7401bce2cccb10260fd0ff3911d7394f3b58b7c7a64ed10e427f71edac237dde6"
}
