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A manifest v3 web extension with minimal permissions to automatically redirect to privacy friendly frontends. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
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nitter.net instance removal #30

Closed RoseTheFlower closed 8 months ago

RoseTheFlower commented 9 months ago

The instance no longer works, with the Nitter creator saying "Nitter is dead".

Bertaz commented 9 months ago

Nitter as a service is dead, all instances will stop working soon. This is caused by twitter shutting off guest account creation. [1] [2] [3] what guest accounts are were In fact nitter.net is still working, its certificate simply expired.

RoseTheFlower commented 9 months ago

In Firefox, I don't think it's possible to visit nitter.net given its expired certificate, unless there is some about:config override for that. The other instances are still accessible, so I'd say the PR still makes sense at least for the moment to prevent the redirecting specifically to nitter.net.

lukefromdc commented 9 months ago

In about:config, changing network.stricttransportsecurity.preloadlist tofalse keeps Firefox from overriding your demands, it is enough for sites to default to https and ask before accepting an expired certificate so long as you do NOT log into anything or exchange sensitive information after clicking through a certificate warning.