inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoXCancel also served cease and desist letter from Xitterxcancel.comexternal-linkmessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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minus-squareinari@piefed.zipOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoIt displays tweets without generating traffic to Twitter
minus-squarecommunism@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 days 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-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days 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.
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.
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.