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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 rsynnott »

wolvoleo wrote: post #10
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.

Unfortunately the alternatives aren't much better. Bluesky now does the same BS where they demand an account if you just want to read replies to a tweet or whatever they call that at bluesky. And there is no bskycancel.com yet.

Huh, no it doesn't? Threads work fine when logged out on Bluesky (unless a post has been set by the author to logged-in users only, in which case it'll be hidden; this is fairly rare tho).

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

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Post by mikkupikku »

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.

Honestly I barely see the use of this, I've ""needed"" to read a twitter thread like once in my life, I can't imagine needing it so often that a dedicated extension makes sense.

Also, I only adopt new browser plugins very sparingly, because the chance of some random extension getting bought out by a shadowy ad and malware firm is way too high, and Mozilla doesn't assure me with the level of vetting they do (nonexistent, compared to F-Droid or any mainstream linux distro.) Why is this such a problem for Mozilla? They even try to make it difficult to get extensions from anybody but them, so a third party extension store that actually does due diligence is basically off the table. I can't even install extensions straight from a developer's github, which wouldn't be as good as a trusted 3rd party repo, but still better than Mozilla's status quo. In fact, so called userscripts loaded through one trusted extension actually feel a lot safer than normal extensions.

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

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Post by contravariant »

hexbin010 wrote: post #5

https://libredirect.github.io/ does this for many other services and has a good reputation

They should really update those links. Could be a coincidence but about half seemed to redirect me to a service that was discontinued or continued under a different name.

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

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Post by debugnik »

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.

Define depending. I don't post on it and I don't care much about its algorithmic timeline, but if I didn't use it I'd miss out on the announcements and posts from several people and companies I'm interested in. The alternative is cutting myself out from those, not just from Twitter itself.

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

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Post by saubeidl »

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 discourse from its would-be manipulator is the most reasonable thing to do and a reflection of true hacker ethics.

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

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Post by dmit »

hexbin010 wrote: post #5

https://libredirect.github.io/ does this for many other services and has a good reputation

I'm using https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ with a couple custom rules. Unfortunately, it appears the author has died (https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector#tribute), and the project is in a maintenance state. But it does exactly everything I need, and I disabled the auto-update, so I should be safe from any takeover attacks. Thank you, Einar.

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

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Post by jacobthesnakob »

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.

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