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X sends cease and desist notices forcing Nitter and XCancel offline
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X Corp sent cease and desist letters to Nitter and XCancel over alleged data scraping and rules violations, halting both services.
Open source projects that provided privacy-focused access to X posts without requiring an account have been forced offline. This removes a significant alternative interface for reading X content and signals X's willingness to use legal action against scraping-based workarounds.
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XCancel received a cease and desist letter from X Corp on August 24 and halted its service until further notice.
Nitter's maintainer confirmed nitter.net is offline, development has stopped, and the GitHub repository is archived as read-only.
The legal notices allege data scraping and violations of X's rules, which appears to target Nitter's workaround after it resumed operations following a previous shutdown in January 2024.
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