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Re: Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

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sure that I can disagree with, there definitely are people like that, there's billions of us after all but I'm pretty sure he was referencing Elon there, as in there's no such thing as him doing such a salute but hey, I can't even see the original post because it was flagged, like mine is now. so that's great.

I do think it’s interesting that in a conversation about nazis where Elon musk hadn’t been mentioned, that’s the first place your brain goes. You heard “Nazi” and immediately thought “Elon”. Curious.

Oh sorry, to catch you up on the conversation. We are talking about Twitter, and we are discussing it on HN where the uneducated like to hate on Elon.

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Agent First is the name of my startup ( https://agentfirst.dev/ ), which mostly does what you described. :-)

>Agent First’s supercluster of real, well-behaved browsers bypasses or solves reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha, & other captchas Can you share how you prevent spammers from simply using this to do what they usually do, or, if not, how you will stop Cloudflare et al. from marking your browsers as bots and hammering them with captchas? Easy access to the plain web for bots is a pretty tough cat and mouse game…

The API is default rate-limited, so spamming page requests shouldn’t be possible; not behaving like a bot is the relatively easy part – doing so cost-effectively is harder and what I spend more time optimizing for.

Re: Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

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Few details but glad to see the project will continue. Given how much crucial information is posted exclusively to X, having an alternative frontend is important. Interesting that they were inspired by Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend). That’s another project that could use some love. Hopefully AI coding tools can do some good and make it easier for these projects to find ways into the walled gardens and work…

If someboy posts something on X...I just assume its a performative act, you dont want to reach an audience and I just ignore. Never creating an account to hear an opinion ....

Aren't most opinions locked behind an account, usually with a pay wall in front? I don't mean new tech, speaking of traditional ones. Politicians or whomever, interview with a journalist locked behind a cable subscription or a newspaper or magasine? Someone sharing their thoughts in their latest book bought at one of 3 places with one of the 2 available transactions companies that link you to the final "content".

I am not on Twitter/X.

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They are more noscript friendly ... except for the mandatory bot check. Sad that this is what the Internet has become.

Real BOTs are more and more using whatwg cartel web engines, namely this has an end. If not all, namely the end was already reached. The ones not using them are more likely to be shadowpaid hackers by the whatwg cartel to ruin anything noscript/basic HTML (or they could be beyond idiotic hackers, unlikely). Not to mention, many "maths challenges" out there are nothing more than a 'wait loop' in the end. Namely, you c…

Human scale wait timers aren't a big issue for bots. More parallel requests. Or more websites being scraped in parallel, if the website doesn't allow multiple timers going at once.

Whereas number crunching actually ties up some CPU time.

Re: Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

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Reading between the lines it appears that the only argument twitter had is that they could not enforce content moderation due to the archival nature of nitter. Pretty cool to see that archival sites cannot get C&D'd that easily!

Correct me if I am wrong, but I'm pretty sure they could get away with this because nitter is not an archival software, but rather a frontend or alternative twitter proxy.

It's effectively archival since their cache is forever afaik.

Re: Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

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You presume opposing counsel isn't using GPT-6 and other, legal-specific models trained on data ChatGPT will never gain access to. Hint: they are. Regardless of advice quality, legal proceedings aren't free-to-play, and the adversary in question here has bottomless pockets.

It's kinda-crazy the degree to which legal data--which you need for a fair trial under the law--is locked up by monopolistic brokers. FFS, we're already at the edge of having to pay to know what the laws even are. [0] [0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/pro-codes-act-wolf-she...

Indeed the Pro Codes Act is still being pushed hard to this day.

Here's an article from this Congress: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewleahey/2025/06/26/pro-cod...

Imagine having to buy a subscription to the laws you must follow or potentially be imprisoned for violating.

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