{"slug": "xcancel", "name": "xcancel", "category": "communication", "category_name": "Email and chat", "description": "Alternative web front-end for viewing X (Twitter) posts without logging in.", "recommenders": 7, "commenters": 15, "warners": 0, "score": 8.631, "rising": 3.02, "first": "2025-12-29", "latest": "2026-09-15", "why": "HN commenters use it to read X posts and threads without an account or login wall, often by swapping x.com for xcancel.com or redirecting links automatically.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 7, "neutral": 8, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0], "listed": true, "loved": ["No login needed", "Easy redirects"], "caveat": "Takedown", "short_quote": "I donated to xcancel because id rather support that than pay for Twitter blue or whatever.", "icon": false, "domain": "xcancel.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://xcancel.com", "pricing": "free", "aliases": ["xcancel", "XCancel", "Xcancel"], "verdict": [{"text": "HN commenters use it to read X posts and threads without an account or login wall,", "cites": [{"id": 791181937, "item_id": 49448871, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448871", "by": "pxndxx", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Nitter/Xcancel entirely because I don't have an account", "excerpt": "I use Nitter/Xcancel entirely because I don't have an account, and Twitter is now unusable without one. There's still content of some value there. People still link to it and now I can't read what they shared with me.", "context": "no Twitter account", "use_case": "reading Twitter without account", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"}, {"id": 795337888, "item_id": 49708618, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708618", "by": "benrutter", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> My point is: companies stop making your product suck, and people won't have a reason to try and fix it for you. Boy this would be nice! X have obviously decided that using the law to take down people fixing its issues is more profitable than fixing them. I'm really curious though, are they right? (Ignoring ethics etc) I used to glance at Twitter when it was less hostile, now I don't bother since it tries to force y", "context": "no Twitter account", "use_case": "reading X without account", "switched_from": "", "story": "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"}, {"id": 795114352, "item_id": 49694647, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694647", "by": "okeuro49", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "which is the only reason I use xcancel", "excerpt": "I wish X would allow browsing threads, which is the only reason I use xcancel. I wouldn't even mind seeing advertisements. I just don't want to have an X account.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing X threads without account", "switched_from": "", "story": "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"}, {"id": 787068752, "item_id": 49191797, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191797", "by": "OJFord", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "xcancel is used mainly by people annoyed by login walls", "excerpt": "Ime those people don't want to see the content at all; xcancel is used mainly by people annoyed by login walls (I even have an account! It's just annoying.). (By 'those people' I mean those who tie their app experience to its CEO's politics or whatever. I'm no supporter, nor in the US so don't feel particularly affected anyway, but mainly I just don't care about the CEO one way or another when I use a website.)", "context": "", "use_case": "viewing posts without login", "switched_from": "", "story": null}]}, {"text": " often by swapping x.com for xcancel.com or redirecting links automatically.", "cites": [{"id": 742846432, "item_id": 46427902, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427902", "by": "ewoodrich", "date": "2025-12-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "you can easily bypass the awful logged out view by replacing x.com with xcancel.com", "excerpt": "https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521 (FYI: you can easily bypass the awful logged out view by replacing x.com with xcancel.com, I use a URL Autoredirector rule to do it automatically in Chromium browsers)", "context": "", "use_case": "viewing Twitter/X posts logged out", "switched_from": "", "story": "Karpathy on Programming"}, {"id": 744409089, "item_id": 46525568, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525568", "by": "reify", "date": "2026-01-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "here is the same thing for x.com redirects to xcancel.com", "excerpt": "I dont use x, but I use this for redirects to reddit; I create a two bookmarks in a folder called redirects in the bookmarks toolbar for easy access. when I click on a link to reddit, I click on the bookmark and it automatically redirects to reddit.nerdvpn.de or redlib.privacyredirect.com. there are many others javascript:(function(){if (location.host.endsWith('.reddit.com') && (location.host !='new.reddit.com') ) lo", "context": "doesn't use X", "use_case": "X frontend redirect", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com"}, {"id": 793293377, "item_id": 49580836, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580836", "by": "the_lucifer", "date": "2026-09-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "redirecting Twitter/X links to Xcancel before the takedown", "excerpt": "+ for folks using Kagi Search, you can set up a search engine level redirect (which is what I used to use for redirecting Twitter/X links to Xcancel before the takedown)", "context": "", "use_case": "Twitter/X frontend", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"}]}, {"text": " The main caveat is reports that it stopped working after a takedown.", "cites": [{"id": 793293377, "item_id": 49580836, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580836", "by": "the_lucifer", "date": "2026-09-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "redirecting Twitter/X links to Xcancel before the takedown", "excerpt": "+ for folks using Kagi Search, you can set up a search engine level redirect (which is what I used to use for redirecting Twitter/X links to Xcancel before the takedown)", "context": "", "use_case": "Twitter/X frontend", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"}, {"id": 791150497, "item_id": 49446906, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446906", "by": "expedited123", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I had to rely on nitter and xcancel for that... Now that no longer works either", "excerpt": "Twitter has gone from relatively open to instagram / facebook level of closedness where I can't even share a video with my friends because it asks them to log in. I had to rely on nitter and xcancel for that... Now that no longer works either I have one niche that I use twitter for. If it wasn't for that - would have deleted my account long time ago. Things like this push me towards that direction, though.", "context": "", "use_case": "sharing Twitter videos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "No login needed", "summary": "Lets people read tweets, replies and threads without signing in or having an X account.", "quotes": [{"id": 791181937, "item_id": 49448871, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448871", "by": "pxndxx", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Nitter/Xcancel entirely because I don't have an account", "excerpt": "I use Nitter/Xcancel entirely because I don't have an account, and Twitter is now unusable without one. There's still content of some value there. People still link to it and now I can't read what they shared with me.", "context": "no Twitter account", "use_case": "reading Twitter without account", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"}, {"id": 795337888, "item_id": 49708618, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708618", "by": "benrutter", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> My point is: companies stop making your product suck, and people won't have a reason to try and fix it for you. Boy this would be nice! X have obviously decided that using the law to take down people fixing its issues is more profitable than fixing them. I'm really curious though, are they right? (Ignoring ethics etc) I used to glance at Twitter when it was less hostile, now I don't bother since it tries to force y", "context": "no Twitter account", "use_case": "reading X without account", "switched_from": "", "story": "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"}, {"id": 795114352, "item_id": 49694647, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694647", "by": "okeuro49", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "which is the only reason I use xcancel", "excerpt": "I wish X would allow browsing threads, which is the only reason I use xcancel. I wouldn't even mind seeing advertisements. I just don't want to have an X account.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing X threads without account", "switched_from": "", "story": "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"}]}, {"label": "Easy redirects", "summary": "Replacing x.com with xcancel.com works by hand, via a bookmarklet, or with browser and search-engine redirect rules.", "quotes": [{"id": 742846432, "item_id": 46427902, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427902", "by": "ewoodrich", "date": "2025-12-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "you can easily bypass the awful logged out view by replacing x.com with xcancel.com", "excerpt": "https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521 (FYI: you can easily bypass the awful logged out view by replacing x.com with xcancel.com, I use a URL Autoredirector rule to do it automatically in Chromium browsers)", "context": "", "use_case": "viewing Twitter/X posts logged out", "switched_from": "", "story": "Karpathy on Programming"}, {"id": 744409089, "item_id": 46525568, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525568", "by": "reify", "date": "2026-01-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "here is the same thing for x.com redirects to xcancel.com", "excerpt": "I dont use x, but I use this for redirects to reddit; I create a two bookmarks in a folder called redirects in the bookmarks toolbar for easy access. when I click on a link to reddit, I click on the bookmark and it automatically redirects to reddit.nerdvpn.de or redlib.privacyredirect.com. there are many others javascript:(function(){if (location.host.endsWith('.reddit.com') && (location.host !='new.reddit.com') ) lo", "context": "doesn't use X", "use_case": "X frontend redirect", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com"}, {"id": 793293377, "item_id": 49580836, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580836", "by": "the_lucifer", "date": "2026-09-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "redirecting Twitter/X links to Xcancel before the takedown", "excerpt": "+ for folks using Kagi Search, you can set up a search engine level redirect (which is what I used to use for redirecting Twitter/X links to Xcancel before the takedown)", "context": "", "use_case": "Twitter/X frontend", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"}]}, {"label": "Selective following", "summary": "Useful for reading specific people's feeds without engaging in the platform.", "quotes": [{"id": 747625888, "item_id": 46726618, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726618", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-01-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Why not follow them with xcancel or other pull through caches?", "excerpt": "Why not follow them with xcancel or other pull through caches? If you\u2019re not there for discourse, you just need to retrieve the published content.", "context": "", "use_case": "reading X without an account", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Have you managed to switch to Bluesky for tech people?"}, {"id": 793493217, "item_id": 49593326, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593326", "by": "jan_m_savage", "date": "2026-09-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "XCancel/Nitter for specific feeds by certain people", "excerpt": "If you have ADHD, it's particularly damaging to doomscroll. It worsens my ADHD I've found; hence, except Youtube, I am off all social media of the Tiktok/X type. I use Youtube for long-form video and only select videos, and XCancel/Nitter for specific feeds by certain people, which I read according to a predetermined schedule.", "context": "has ADHD", "use_case": "reading specific X feeds", "switched_from": "", "story": "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"}]}, {"label": "Worth supporting", "summary": "One commenter donated to it rather than pay for an X subscription.", "quotes": [{"id": 791075008, "item_id": 49442188, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442188", "by": "abustamam", "date": "2026-08-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I donated to xcancel because id rather support that than pay for Twitter blue or whatever.", "excerpt": "I have a Twitter account and even then I use xcancel and such because Twitter signed me out one time and then i couldn't read replies to tweets without being signed in, and I really hate being nagged to get a shitty app or sign in just to read some stuff. I donated to xcancel because id rather support that than pay for Twitter blue or whatever.", "context": "has a Twitter account", "use_case": "reading Twitter without sign-in", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Takedown", "summary": "Commenters report it no longer works after a takedown.", "quotes": [{"id": 793293377, "item_id": 49580836, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580836", "by": "the_lucifer", "date": "2026-09-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "redirecting Twitter/X links to Xcancel before the takedown", "excerpt": "+ for folks using Kagi Search, you can set up a search engine level redirect (which is what I used to use for redirecting Twitter/X links to Xcancel before the takedown)", "context": "", "use_case": "Twitter/X frontend", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"}, {"id": 791150497, "item_id": 49446906, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446906", "by": "expedited123", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I had to rely on nitter and xcancel for that... Now that no longer works either", "excerpt": "Twitter has gone from relatively open to instagram / facebook level of closedness where I can't even share a video with my friends because it asks them to log in. I had to rely on nitter and xcancel for that... Now that no longer works either I have one niche that I use twitter for. If it wasn't for that - would have deleted my account long time ago. Things like this push me towards that direction, though.", "context": "", "use_case": "sharing Twitter videos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"}]}], "who": [{"by": "benrutter", "context": "no Twitter account", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708618", "date": "2026-09-15"}, {"by": "jan_m_savage", "context": "has ADHD", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593326", "date": "2026-09-07"}, {"by": "pxndxx", "context": "no Twitter account", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448871", "date": "2026-08-26"}, {"by": "encody", "context": "works from cafes using a commercial VPN", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445690", "date": "2026-08-26"}, {"by": "abustamam", "context": "has a Twitter account", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442188", "date": "2026-08-25"}, {"by": "reify", "context": "doesn't use X", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525568", "date": "2026-01-07"}], "tags": ["for people without X accounts", "for avoiding login walls", "for following select accounts"], "use_cases": ["reading x without account", "browsing x without account", "browsing x threads without account", "reading specific x feeds", "twitter/x frontend", "reading twitter without account"], "compared": [{"slug": "nitter", "name": "Nitter", "co": 7, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "x-twitter", "name": "X (Twitter)", "co": 2, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283", "title": "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices", "mentions": 5}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694296", "title": "XCancel service is suspended until further notice", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585627", "title": "Doomscrolling ourselves to death", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634", "title": "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191563", "title": "item 49191563", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767143", "title": "The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 4, "recommend": 2}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 3, "recommend": 2}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 795337888, "item_id": 49708618, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708618", "by": "benrutter", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> My point is: companies stop making your product suck, and people won't have a reason to try and fix it for you. Boy this would be nice! X have obviously decided that using the law to take down people fixing its issues is more profitable than fixing them. I'm really curious though, are they right? (Ignoring ethics etc) I used to glance at Twitter when it was less hostile, now I don't bother since it tries to force y", "context": "no Twitter account", "use_case": "reading X without account", "switched_from": "", "story": "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"}, {"id": 795207872, "item_id": 49700492, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700492", "by": "redbell", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use XCancel and Nitter regularly an I like them", "excerpt": "> You can find the content you were looking for on the original website: > Continue to X This was hard to swallow for me! Why you are redirecting to X, which is the exact opposite of what you are offering?! Don't get me wrong, I use XCancel and Nitter regularly an I like them, it just hits hard!", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing X without account", "switched_from": "", "story": "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"}, {"id": 795114352, "item_id": 49694647, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694647", "by": "okeuro49", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "which is the only reason I use xcancel", "excerpt": "I wish X would allow browsing threads, which is the only reason I use xcancel. I wouldn't even mind seeing advertisements. I just don't want to have an X account.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing X threads without account", "switched_from": "", "story": "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"}, {"id": 793493217, "item_id": 49593326, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593326", "by": "jan_m_savage", "date": "2026-09-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "XCancel/Nitter for specific feeds by certain people", "excerpt": "If you have ADHD, it's particularly damaging to doomscroll. It worsens my ADHD I've found; hence, except Youtube, I am off all social media of the Tiktok/X type. I use Youtube for long-form video and only select videos, and XCancel/Nitter for specific feeds by certain people, which I read according to a predetermined schedule.", "context": "has ADHD", "use_case": "reading specific X feeds", "switched_from": "", "story": "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"}, {"id": 793293377, "item_id": 49580836, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580836", "by": "the_lucifer", "date": "2026-09-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "redirecting Twitter/X links to Xcancel before the takedown", "excerpt": "+ for folks using Kagi Search, you can set up a search engine level redirect (which is what I used to use for redirecting Twitter/X links to Xcancel before the takedown)", "context": "", "use_case": "Twitter/X frontend", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"}, {"id": 791181937, "item_id": 49448871, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448871", "by": "pxndxx", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Nitter/Xcancel entirely because I don't have an account", "excerpt": "I use Nitter/Xcancel entirely because I don't have an account, and Twitter is now unusable without one. There's still content of some value there. People still link to it and now I can't read what they shared with me.", "context": "no Twitter account", "use_case": "reading Twitter without account", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"}, {"id": 791150497, "item_id": 49446906, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446906", "by": "expedited123", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I had to rely on nitter and xcancel for that... Now that no longer works either", "excerpt": "Twitter has gone from relatively open to instagram / facebook level of closedness where I can't even share a video with my friends because it asks them to log in. I had to rely on nitter and xcancel for that... Now that no longer works either I have one niche that I use twitter for. If it wasn't for that - would have deleted my account long time ago. Things like this push me towards that direction, though.", "context": "", "use_case": "sharing Twitter videos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"}, {"id": 791131040, "item_id": 49445690, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445690", "by": "encody", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "If I can't use Xcancel, then I won't be able to read Twitter on the rare occasion I want to.", "excerpt": "I work out of cafes a lot, so I use a commercial VPN often. This means that I am unable to read Reddit. (Not to mention I have to pass two Cloudflare captchas on most other sites.) If I can't use Xcancel, then I won't be able to read Twitter on the rare occasion I want to. Strangely, as someone who is online a lot, I seem to be getting gradually cut off from other Internet users. HN is kind of the last survivor for m", "context": "works from cafes using a commercial VPN", "use_case": "reading Twitter while on VPN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"}, {"id": 791075008, "item_id": 49442188, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442188", "by": "abustamam", "date": "2026-08-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I donated to xcancel because id rather support that than pay for Twitter blue or whatever.", "excerpt": "I have a Twitter account and even then I use xcancel and such because Twitter signed me out one time and then i couldn't read replies to tweets without being signed in, and I really hate being nagged to get a shitty app or sign in just to read some stuff. I donated to xcancel because id rather support that than pay for Twitter blue or whatever.", "context": "has a Twitter account", "use_case": "reading Twitter without sign-in", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"}, {"id": 791071232, "item_id": 49441952, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441952", "by": "stephen_g", "date": "2026-08-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've had a look on XCancel when there have been major events once or twice", "excerpt": "Yeah, I used to watch things like this, I stopped using Twitter the second it became called 'X' and actually find I don't miss it including the major event live-tweeting. Since then I've had a look on XCancel when there have been major events once or twice and yeah, most of the flurry of real time updates turn out to be misinformed or just plain wrong later anyway... I don't miss it.", "context": "", "use_case": "viewing Twitter without account", "switched_from": "Twitter", "story": "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"}, {"id": 787068752, "item_id": 49191797, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191797", "by": "OJFord", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "xcancel is used mainly by people annoyed by login walls", "excerpt": "Ime those people don't want to see the content at all; xcancel is used mainly by people annoyed by login walls (I even have an account! It's just annoying.). (By 'those people' I mean those who tie their app experience to its CEO's politics or whatever. I'm no supporter, nor in the US so don't feel particularly affected anyway, but mainly I just don't care about the CEO one way or another when I use a website.)", "context": "", "use_case": "viewing posts without login", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 764336339, "item_id": 47771021, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771021", "by": "AlBugdy", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Nitter or XCancel", "excerpt": "Might be unrelated to the specific GUI discussion but I absolutely hate how there is no threaded discussion on Bluesky or Mastodon (or Twitter which they desperately try to mimic for some reason). You have to use \"@username\" which does nothing useful when clicked. You can barely select text on a post. If you click on it, you lost your place and go inside the post? Why aren't comment GUIs like those of HN, lobsters or", "context": "", "use_case": "viewing Twitter links", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client"}, {"id": 747625888, "item_id": 46726618, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726618", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-01-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Why not follow them with xcancel or other pull through caches?", "excerpt": "Why not follow them with xcancel or other pull through caches? If you\u2019re not there for discourse, you just need to retrieve the published content.", "context": "", "use_case": "reading X without an account", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Have you managed to switch to Bluesky for tech people?"}, {"id": 744409089, "item_id": 46525568, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525568", "by": "reify", "date": "2026-01-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "here is the same thing for x.com redirects to xcancel.com", "excerpt": "I dont use x, but I use this for redirects to reddit; I create a two bookmarks in a folder called redirects in the bookmarks toolbar for easy access. when I click on a link to reddit, I click on the bookmark and it automatically redirects to reddit.nerdvpn.de or redlib.privacyredirect.com. there are many others javascript:(function(){if (location.host.endsWith('.reddit.com') && (location.host !='new.reddit.com') ) lo", "context": "doesn't use X", "use_case": "X frontend redirect", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com"}, {"id": 742846432, "item_id": 46427902, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427902", "by": "ewoodrich", "date": "2025-12-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "you can easily bypass the awful logged out view by replacing x.com with xcancel.com", "excerpt": "https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521 (FYI: you can easily bypass the awful logged out view by replacing x.com with xcancel.com, I use a URL Autoredirector rule to do it automatically in Chromium browsers)", "context": "", "use_case": "viewing Twitter/X posts logged out", "switched_from": "", "story": "Karpathy on Programming"}]}