After X threatened legal action last month, Nitter and XCancel, privacy-friendly services for viewing X posts, appear to be officially dead — for real this time. Nitter, an open-source project that let people read X posts without logging in, had been used to power a number of services, like XCancel and others . But last month, X sent Nitter a cease-and-desist letter over its alleged “unlawful use and circumvention” of X’s API and associated data. Essentially, X said that Nitte…
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