Check this box to affirm you have no conflict of interest. on Website XCancel Short description Allows accessing Twitter content via Nitter interface. Why I think this tool should be added A lot of interesting people are still on Twitter and haven’t yet moved…

Please read: https://xcancel.com/memo/privacyguides.txt

Guest view on twitter is limited to non existent, all these frontends need to rotate normal accounts with the normal view limits. In other words when it gets popular will be a pain to maintain plus services like these today work next week don’t.

xcancel.com has proven an reliable frontend for X (Twitter). It is based on the now-dead Nitter. We should add it, we can just reuse the Nitter template but just replace with xcancel.com

I’m all for this. As far as I know, this is the only working Nitter instance left. It uses rotating proxies to access X and POW captchas for visitors of the site.

[image] q2q: As far as I know, this is the only working Nitter instance left. That’s not true, there are some other instances that work too.

I guess the problem with this is it’s nitter and nitter was discontinued, so would need their source code I suppose. If they’re just using EOL software then I do t think we’re going to be recommending it.

[image] fria: EOL software Only a potential issue for those hosting it, for the user it doesn’t matter.

Active development is a general criteria across all of PrivacyGuides. I doubt xcancel is worth making an exception. Please read up on the criteria. :slight_smile: [image] General Criteria - Privacy Guides A list of general priorities we consider for all submissions to Privacy Guides. …

xcancel actually uses a fork of nitter. The link to the repo in the about section is wrong but you can click on the instance info link instead to get the link to the current repo.

[image] anon48875053: That’s not true, there are some other instances that work too. Are you sure ? I know nitter.poast.org , and they said a few months ago it ended, so they are most likely just maintaining for Archive purposes. [image] guess the problem with this is it’s nitter and nitt…

Nitterpoast is still working fine. Where did you hear this?

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It’s just running Nitter I believe, it’s mentioned in the about page for XCancel:

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