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Privacy: catch x.com before rather than after it redirects to twitter.com #19

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pseudomonas opened this issue Jan 3, 2024 · 0 comments
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Privacy: catch x.com before rather than after it redirects to twitter.com #19

pseudomonas opened this issue Jan 3, 2024 · 0 comments

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pseudomonas commented Jan 3, 2024 •
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At the moment, a link to x.com is passed to x.com, which issues a redirect to twitter.com (injecting a tracking parameter by the by) and then that second link is intercepted by this package and translated to nitter.net.

This means that the process leaves a trace on the X/Twitter servers, which is suboptimal for privacy purposes; it would be better if this app intercepted requests to x.com in the same way it intercepts those to twitter.com,
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