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Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by theshrike79 »

jacobthesnakob wrote: post #20
self_awareness wrote: post #3

This is generally sad. People hate a service, but they depend on it so much they create whole codebases to cope with it. Depending on things we hate is a tragedy. How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life. Unless you are of course somehow required/forced to use X, then I'm all for projects like these.

Agree. I have the X domain blacklisted in my Pihole. Remember when Reddit mods made a whole show of virtue signaling about banning links to X, but most of those same subreddits’ top content (and 20% of the front page) was screenshots of X? A lot of people are unwilling to withstand even a bit of discomfort to stand up for their supposed principles.

TBH posting twitter screenshots doesn't give any revenue, data or clicks to Musk, which is what we want.

There are still people who only post stuff on Twitter whose opinion I kinda want to hear, but I'm not creating an account there.

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by doublerabbit »

self_awareness wrote: post #3

This is generally sad. People hate a service, but they depend on it so much they create whole codebases to cope with it. Depending on things we hate is a tragedy. How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life. Unless you are of course somehow required/forced to use X, then I'm all for projects like these.

> How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life.

I hate X and have never used it.

Any link that resolves to Twitter will instantly become a closed tab; still waiting for that happier life.

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by hagbard_c »

self_awareness wrote: post #3

This is generally sad. People hate a service, but they depend on it so much they create whole codebases to cope with it. Depending on things we hate is a tragedy. How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life. Unless you are of course somehow required/forced to use X, then I'm all for projects like these.

I never liked Twitter and I like X just as little but I don't 'hate' them. I use libredirect to redirect to my own instances of Nitter, Redlib and Invidious (and more services but these are the 'big' one) not because I 'hate' X, Reddit and YouTube but because I don't want them to track me, I don't like ads and using these services through proxies makes then work on hardware which would totally bog down were it not for the proxies. It is amazing how much useless guff can be cut away from these while improving the user experience.

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by balops »

saubeidl wrote: post #18
self_awareness wrote: post #3

This is generally sad. People hate a service, but they depend on it so much they create whole codebases to cope with it. Depending on things we hate is a tragedy. How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life. Unless you are of course somehow required/forced to use X, then I'm all for projects like these.

I hate X, its anti-user patterns and how its oligarch owner uses it to manipulate discourse to steer society towards his right-wing extremist views. That being said, many public figures have not made the same judgement and post their communications there. Should I just stop informing myself on the public discourse because the place it happens got taken over by a shady character? I think using code to liberate the dis…

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Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by saagarjha »

self_awareness wrote: post #3

This is generally sad. People hate a service, but they depend on it so much they create whole codebases to cope with it. Depending on things we hate is a tragedy. How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life. Unless you are of course somehow required/forced to use X, then I'm all for projects like these.

A lot of people used to use Twitter before it got bought out and made worse.

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by _vufv »

You can add this as a bookmark in your browser, and just click it to toggle between x.com and xcancel.com

javascript:(function(){const p=['https://x.com','https://xcancel.com'],u=location.href,i=p.findIndex(x=>u.startsWith(x));if(i!==-1)location.href=p[(i+1)%p.length]+u.slice(p[i].length)})();

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by BikiniPrince »

rsynnott wrote: post #9
self_awareness wrote: post #3

This is generally sad. People hate a service, but they depend on it so much they create whole codebases to cope with it. Depending on things we hate is a tragedy. How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life. Unless you are of course somehow required/forced to use X, then I'm all for projects like these.

I assume the use case is for people who don't have a twitter account but encounter twitter links from time to time (Twitter's been broken for non-logged-in users since shortly after Naughty Old Mr Car took over, and even before his reign was sometimes flaky for them).

Broken? They curbed abuse and view botting while increasing their user base. Working as intended.

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by CalRobert »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #2

very good. i find it annoying that whenever there is a new browser extension on HN, i ask for a "firefox version" to which the response is almost always kneejerk "eww no" or something to that end. So to see a firefox extension, that's refreshing. I hope you continue working on it and help improve the extension ecosystem

The same people bemoaning the war on general purpose computing or the surveillance state happily using Chrome has always been a truly bizarre disconnect I’ve never understood.

Maybe it’s age? I used Firefox since firebird, and Phoenix, and Netscape, but saying “try Firefox” might feel like talking about an archaeological relic to a 28 year old who has never even seen Firefox running.

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