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jonas_jensentoday at 12:48 PM5 repliesview on HN

Can I just say: thank you for posting an xcancel link and not linking to X directly! I forgot Xcancel was a thing, I might actually start using it occasionally now.


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himata4113today at 2:30 PM

I noticed that xcancel links are rewritten to x.com more often than not, probably due to the fact that xcancel will not last like xitter, nitter and all the ones before it.

I hope that archive services implement preserving twitter content.

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milofeynmantoday at 2:46 PM

There is an open source web browser proxy thing called finicky [0]. I use at work that lets me redirect urls clicked in other apps like slack to specific browers (firefox / chrome) or even specific chrome profiles. It'll also allow you to rewrite the urls.

[0] https://github.com/johnste/finicky

ddtaylortoday at 1:22 PM

Its pretty widely used on HN from what I notice.

schnebbautoday at 1:46 PM

What are the benefits of using xcancel?

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