Elon musk hits his targets
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Elon has a lot of failures, but also a lot of successes, and a lot of successful people are like that.
Which is ironic because last week, he finally succeeded in killing off Nitter and any other way of browsing X anonymously. Going forward, you will need an account to view tweets on X. Elon's dream of a walled garden for X is approaching completion.
Nitter.net's SSL certificate expired yesterday. It's using HTTPS strict mode so the browser won't let you view it anyway with the expired cert. I tried using "wget --no-check-certificate" and the server says 403 Forbidden so they've also taken the site down.
Nitter.it SSL also is expired, but you can still view the site because it's not using a strict mode.
Other instances are still working.
The free account lockdown they're talking about has been in place for months now. If you're not logged in you see the tweet, but no replies. Maybe Twitter is locking down the real accounts nitter uses to scrape, but that's not why nitter.net is down right now.
That's a separate issue and the security certificate isn't being renewed because Zedeus can not see any practical solution to obtaining the data needed for Nitter and their instances to run without a massive crippling payment for API access.
Ultimately Elon has a scraper/lurker/bot issue where it appears that his solution to all of them will be to erect a walled garden. The solutions enacted and shortly forthcoming also affects registered users too, particularly after the mass scraping and Taylor Swift incidents last week plus pressure on Elon to adhere to online safety laws and advertiser's to verify their identities and deal with the bot/lurker problem.
They'd have to use an extension to scrape the data distributed style using actual people's twitter accounts, like youtube-dislike.
But then people could poison the results or elon could watermark them to find out and ban whoever is passing the data to nitter so they'd need to get multiple accounts to scrape the data and compare them.
Guess we'll see a lot more screenshot posts from now on.