• @thetablesareorange
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      11 year ago

      its like a way to see a website without being tracked so some people use it to view its where its banned or some use it to just get rid of popup ads

      • Arsen6331 ☭
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        31 year ago

        It’s not really a “hacker portal”. It’s an alternative frontend. In the software industry, a frontend is the part of a piece of software that the user interacts with, so Nitter is just a frontend that interfaces with Twitter’s backend (the part of a piece of software that the user doesn’t see). Of course, this is an oversimplification, but this has nothing to do with hacking or anything of the sort. It’s just an alternative UI for Twitter.

      • @Stalins_Spoon
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        21 year ago

        If I am not mistaken, isn’t that a good thing

        • @thetablesareorange
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          21 year ago

          yeah but it takes volunteer maintenance so if nobody fixes it just breaks, could just be taken down by a spambot