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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.
Either way, you'd surely agree its a noble pursuit? Just considering the wider context here!
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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."
Is this really permanent? I'd love to know more about this bearer token. Because in the other github issue thread it seemed like every time they found a way around Twitter's safeguards, it was shutdown. It seems like they've literally hard coded a token into the source code. Meaning thousands of nitter-instances, thousands of users, around the world, will use the same token. And potentially so will the AI companies.…
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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/10b0krt/comment/...
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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...
Awesome, now my light personal-use scraper works again. Didn't even take a restart! Hope Twitter soon lets go of the temporary login restriction too. Given that this isn't completely blocked without a login, I'd expect that to be not far from now on. From what I've collected, I hope Twitter'd start selling dumps of their public data for a bit of a win/win with AI companies and Twitter itself.
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Maybe you don't use it very often? For months before the recent chaos it was very reliable. The fact that it's working today is only because I fixed it, Twitter didn't change anything.
Timelines are usually blank, to the point that I have removed it from the rotation of instances in my browser redirector extension. I assumed this was a result of being rate limited by Twitter. I will admit that since I did remove it from the rotation, I don't see it that often these days, mostly when others link to it and then I navigate to a timeline.
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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…
Funny how the effect of the rate limit has barely affected bots and scrapers at all but severely damaged the userbase of the site.
one of the richest guys in the world (who's also very anti-union, btw!) buys it up in a time where inequality is getting worse and worse and social fabrics are starting to tear and makes it unusable.
no more space for organizing. one fewer threat to capital.
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I think this is why NewPipe doesn't work most of the time. Or if it does work, its absurdly slow.
NewPipe has been working for me for years with occasional breaking changes on YouTube's side that required an urgent update. I watch pretty much everything at 2x speed 1080p and have no issues with buffering.