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<h1>About</h1>
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<p>Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on
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privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at
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<a href="https://github.com/zedeus/nitter">https://github.com/zedeus/nitter</a></p>
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<ul>
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<li>No JavaScript or ads</li>
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<li>All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter</li>
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<li>Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint</li>
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<li>Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)</li>
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<li>Lightweight (for <a href="/nim_lang">@nim_lang</a>, 60KB vs 784KB from twitter.com)</li>
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<li>RSS feeds</li>
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<li>Themes</li>
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<li>Mobile support (responsive design)</li>
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<li>AGPLv3 licensed, no proprietary instances permitted</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Nitter's GitHub wiki contains
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<a href="https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances">instances</a> and
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<a href="https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Extensions">browser extensions</a>
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maintained by the community.</p>
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<h2>Opnxng.com</h2>
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<p>Other services: <a href="https://about.opnxng.com/">https://about.opnxng.com/</a></p>
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<p>Donating: <a href="https://liberapay.com/Opnxng/">https://liberapay.com/Opnxng/</a><br>
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Links to donate to the developer of Nitter can be found down below.</p>
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<h2>Why use Nitter?</h2>
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<p>It's impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled. For privacy-minded
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folks, preventing JavaScript analytics and IP-based tracking is important, but
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apart from using a VPN and uBlock/uMatrix, it's impossible. Despite being behind
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a VPN and using heavy-duty adblockers, you can get accurately tracked with your
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<a href="https://restoreprivacy.com/browser-fingerprinting/">browser's fingerprint</a>,
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<a href="https://noscriptfingerprint.com/">no JavaScript required</a>. This all became
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particularly important after Twitter <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/twitter-removes-privacy-option-and-shows-why-we-need-strong-privacy-laws">removed the
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ability</a>
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for users to control whether their data gets sent to advertisers.</p>
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<p>Using an instance of Nitter (hosted on a VPS for example), you can browse
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Twitter without JavaScript while retaining your privacy. In addition to
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respecting your privacy, Nitter is on average around 15 times lighter than
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Twitter, and in most cases serves pages faster (eg. timelines load 2-4x faster).</p>
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<p>In the future a simple account system will be added that lets you follow Twitter
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users, allowing you to have a clean chronological timeline without needing a
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Twitter account.</p>
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<h2>Donating</h2>
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<p>Liberapay: <a href="https://liberapay.com/zedeus">https://liberapay.com/zedeus</a> <br />
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Patreon: <a href="https://patreon.com/nitter">https://patreon.com/nitter</a> <br />
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BTC: bc1qp7q4qz0fgfvftm5hwz3vy284nue6jedt44kxya <br />
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ETH: 0x66d84bc3fd031b62857ad18c62f1ba072b011925 <br />
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LTC: ltc1qhsz5nxw6jw9rdtw9qssjeq2h8hqk2f85rdgpkr <br />
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XMR: 42hKayRoEAw4D6G6t8mQHPJHQcXqofjFuVfavqKeNMNUZfeJLJAcNU19i1bGdDvcdN6romiSscWGWJCczFLe9RFhM3d1zpL</p>
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<h2>Contact</h2>
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<p>Feel free to join our <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#nitter:matrix.org">Matrix channel</a>.</p>
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