Nitter is working again • Hacker News Board

Re: Nitter is working again

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Post by barbazoo » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 4:03 PM UTC

ilikehurdles wrote: post #39

Anyone remember threads? Whatever happened to that app?

Didn't they release a beta last week?

Re: Nitter is working again

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Post by MicropenisMike » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 4:06 PM UTC

naillo wrote: post #36

Funny how the effect of the rate limit has barely affected bots and scrapers at all but severely damaged the userbase of the site.

It's true for a lot of cases.

Adding almost any restriction only hurts casual users, and attackers are rarely casual users.

Re: Nitter is working again

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Post by synthoidzeta » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 4:13 PM UTC

DavideNL wrote: post #37

joos3 wrote: post #14

This is absolutely amazing, as you still can’t view profiles or replies on Twitter without logging in. I’ve been a nitter user for 4 years now and will be as long as it works.

Note that you can use RSS too - just append `/rss` to the url…

To the Nitter URL? Not working for me

Re: Nitter is working again

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Post by DavideNL » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 4:25 PM UTC

synthoidzeta wrote: post #43

DavideNL wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note that you can use RSS too - just append `/rss` to the url…

To the Nitter URL? Not working for me

Yea, there’s also an icon/link in the upper right corner of the page, just use that.

It’s disabled on some instances…

Re: Nitter is working again

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Post by matheusmoreira » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 4:31 PM UTC

unsupp0rted wrote: post #9

sheepscreek wrote: post #6

This is the most impressive project in Nim I’ve seen yet. Rewriting any major front-end, complete with working authentication and handling idiosyncrasies of the private API is a herculean task. For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does, effectively. Kudos to the author for accomplishing this feat!

> For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does Of course, because if Nitter goes down nobody bats an eye.

Nobody? If Nitter goes down Twitter might as well not even exist to me.

Re: Nitter is working again

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Post by foderking » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 4:40 PM UTC

soraminazuki wrote: post #40

cmeacham98 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My guess is that this token is used in the official Twitter web/mobile app - making it hard for Twitter to just straight up disable/ban.

I wouldn't bet on it. After all, this is Elon Musk we're talking about here. When given a choice, he'll choose the most disruptive option.

"the most entertaining outcome is most likely"

Re: Nitter is working again

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Post by black_puppydog » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 4:40 PM UTC

matheusmoreira wrote: post #45

unsupp0rted wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does Of course, because if Nitter goes down nobody bats an eye.

Nobody? If Nitter goes down Twitter might as well not even exist to me.

this is exactly my experience for the last week. let's see whether I feel the need to update my instance with this patch. for now I'm just like "oh, another twitter link, let me completely ignore it."

Re: Nitter is working again

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Post by charcircuit » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 4:43 PM UTC

This does not seem legal. Stealing an access token to bypass access controls is illegal and I suspect these people didn't get permission to just scrape anything they want.

Re: Nitter is working again

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Post by gadders » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 4:47 PM UTC

Can someone do Fritter next please so I have a decent android Twitter client?

Re: Nitter is working again

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Post by jakear » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 4:48 PM UTC

Macha wrote: post #35

tgv wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't have indivual tokens? Well, let's not give them ideas.

The clients currently work logged out (exempting rate limits) and it's not like you can upload a per user copy of the app to play store/app store, so that root of trust needs to start somewhere which is what the nitter team can extract.

Hmmm... I was thinking you could limit based on the unique identifierForVendor[1], but without a way to verify that a given id is legit this would be easily circumvented. An API whereby Apple cryptographically signs a vendor/device-specific ID so you can effectively rate limit without needing any personal info whatsoever would be nice.

1: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidevice/162...