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Nitter and XCancel are dead (again) after X’s latest legal actions

Publisher description: The privacy-friendly services for viewing X posts without an account have gone dark again after X's escalated legal action.

TechCrunch | Sep 15, 2026 | Sarah Perez

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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.

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