inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoXCancel also served cease and desist letter from Xitterxcancel.comexternal-linkmessage-square68linkfedilinkarrow-up1489arrow-down17
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minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoCould anyone explain what this xcancel is/does for someone who never used twitter?
minus-squareinari@piefed.zipOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·2 months agoIt displays tweets without generating traffic to Twitter
minus-squarecommunism@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·2 months 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-square123@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·2 months agoAnd you don’t have to login to view stuff.
minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 months 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-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoAh, OK. That’s why they are pissed off.
Could anyone explain what this xcancel is/does for someone who never used twitter?
It displays tweets without generating traffic to Twitter
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.
And you don’t have to login to view stuff.
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.
Ah, OK. That’s why they are pissed off.