XCancel

“I don't really like xcancel either as it still encourages indirect engagement with X.”

“People were expecting it to be immune to Elon musk lawyer but I guess it wasn't at all.”

“it will display the actual content only. Without ads and without other user-alienating features.”

“I cannot click on posts. I cannot read replies. I cannot open images.”

“Xcancel helps people migrate away from X, or simply stay outside of it.”

“XCancel is a nice QOL but sends the message that using Twitter is fine.”

“you don't have to sign into X, and you're also denying X some user data and engagement metrics”

“To ignore the X site completely would mean to ignore the xcancel site aswell”

“Standing outside and looking through the Nazi Bar's window is still pretty much hanging out at the Nazi Bar.”

“I always use xcancel instead of X. I don't have a twitter account and I don't want to sign in.”

“Xcancel allows HN users and adjacent to swear that they have left Twitter”

“Their browser verification never made it into the same room as my browser anyway”

“You look very odd and silly if you still want to engage with it and just use a different UI layer”

“Maybe if people didn't make services like XCancel, the impracticality of X would be more salient.”

“it's just the easiest fix whenever somebody shares a tweet with me, and it fails to load”

“Not everyone wants to create a xitter account just to find 1-2 posts”

“nitter is back. Just add an extra x to get xxcancel and it'll redirect”

“it allows me to read but protects me from giving in to the temptation of wasting time”

“I had to rely on nitter and xcancel for that... Now that no longer works either”

“I would assume that if you were using nitter or xcancel it's because you did not want to support X.”

“XCancel is/was a lot faster than X and had IMO a much cleaner UI”

“I donated to xcancel because id rather support that than pay for Twitter blue or whatever.”

“constantly giving you an error message if you tried more than 2 or 3 searches at a time”

“I can only make a few searches on the xcancel website itself before it tells me I'm rate limited”

“lately I get more and more captcha-crap, only to be put to its main site, not the URL i meant to visit”

“xcancel does not have a login barrier, nor all the popup messages.”

“usually I just replace "x.com" with "xcancel.com" in the URL bar”

“You should be able to suffix the x domain with "cancel" to view the content through a proxy.”

“use mirrors like xcancel.com or nitter.net as drop-in replacements (which I use.)”

“changing the x.com or twitter.com in a twitter link to xcancel.com usually works to view tweets without an account”

“it's very lightweight. There is an anti-SPAM redirect but no huge JS bundles, just basic HTML.”

“You don't have to login to X or download the app (if you're on mobile).”

“especially when they don't work with XCancel which seems to be happening more frequently”

“just set up a browser redirector that sends you to the relevant xcancel page”

“for people who don't like supporting the white supremacist site”

“Try searching Twitter using key terms on xcancel (or another proxy) in order to find more relevant accounts to follow”

“xcancel has some annoying bot/ddos protection that makes it take longer to load”

“Xcancel is not for writing; it is for reading without needing an account.”

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

“you can usually just change the x.com to xcancel.com in any such url”