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XCancel also served cease and desist letter from Xitter (xcancel.com)
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[–] communism@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 hours 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.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 32 minutes 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.

[–] 123@programming.dev 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

And you don't have to login to view stuff.