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Third-party read-only interfaces that render a platform's public content outside its own site, of which Nitter and Xcancel were the best-known for X.

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product1 distinct publisher

Two letters on one Monday ended the URL swap that read X without a login

Nitter and Xcancel both stopped after X Corp wrote to them on the same August Monday, and every workflow that read a public post without an account now needs one, or a paid API key. Neither maintainer will discuss the letters yet.

Publishers:techdirt.com

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