▲ 475 ▼ XCancel also served cease and desist letter from Xitter (xcancel.com) submitted 2 months ago by inari@piefed.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world 60 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] inari@piefed.zip [S] 39 points 2 months ago (4 children) It displays tweets without generating traffic to Twitter permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] communism@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 months ago (2 children) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 123@programming.dev 30 points 2 months ago* And you don't have to login to view stuff. permalink fedilink source parent [–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago Ah, OK. That's why they are pissed off. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] communism@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 months ago (2 children) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 123@programming.dev 30 points 2 months ago* And you don't have to login to view stuff. permalink fedilink source parent [–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 123@programming.dev 30 points 2 months ago* And you don't have to login to view stuff. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago Ah, OK. That's why they are pissed off. permalink fedilink source parent