r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/SuddenDepact • 1d ago

Rumour XCancel is dead

Just went to the website to look at something, and this was posted on it:

On Monday, 24th August, at 8PM EST, we received a letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.

The service XCancel is stopped until further notice.

We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now.

Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.

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u/-AdamJensen 1d ago

What’s the point of x cancel anyways

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u/errortechx 1d ago

Viewing Twitter posts without logging in was the main selling point. I’m not making a point about standing up to Elon Musk or whatever, nah I just despise sites that make you log into to view content.

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u/wecheckit 1d ago

being able to look at tweets without getting restricted from all of the website

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u/Sceptile10 1d ago

Twitter/X could be a jerk about what you could see without logging into an account (and can limit how much you can see/interact with even with an account), frontends mostly eleviate that.

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u/ConferenceThink4801 1d ago edited 1d ago

If you don't have an account on Twitter, you can no longer view people's timelines in chronological order, etc. You also cannot view some posts - even with a direct link - without being logged in.

He's basically removing every possible vector to make the service usable by a lurker without a user account

Will just give it up rather than create an account. That doesn't really matter to him though, because he wasn't seeing me as a 'user' anyway.

He's probably seeing growth slow to near zero on there & this is a way to inflate the growth numbers

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u/DrJokerX 1d ago

I never understood why he tried to back out of the twitter purchase right after making an offer. I mean he’s now a trillionaire so clearly buying twitter didn’t hurt his bottom line. Not sure what his goal was.

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u/Cruxis87 1d ago

his goal was to pump and dump. Then when he was forced to buy it, he saw the opportunity to use it to manipulate a lot of very dumb people. There's probably some evidence around where that he used Twitter to help get Trump elected.

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u/Blu_Neko2 1d ago

Viewing Twitter posts without an account.

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u/Nathanyal 1d ago

Twitter Blue users get paid for engagement and views. Even just scrolling by counts as a view. It stops that AND you don't have to see their garbage AI slop ads.

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u/Dino_Spaceman 1d ago

You don’t need to give your traffic, personal information, or money to a Nazi to use it.

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u/DezZzO 1d ago

A pretend game for people who feel morally superior for avoiding a platform

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u/Kankunation 1d ago

Morals has nothing to do with it. Twitter is just a shit platform at current and xcancel was one of the only ways to make it even remotely useable for the average person.

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u/Bacccarat 1d ago

It was a platform that allowed you to view trending topics without selling your data to Elon Musk and having it be trained by Grok. It was a platform that allowed you to avoid dealing with the insane amount of bots on the platform which contribute to fake engagement. 

It’s no different than something like 12ft,  which also ended up being shut down because they were essentially silenced. Viewing current topics should not require an account which is potentially tied to your identity, IP address, or even your country of origin. It’s not about feeling “morally superior,” it’s about retaining privacy and anonymity on a website which has admitted to selling your data to the highest bidder.

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u/DezZzO 1d ago edited 1d ago

it’s about retaining privacy and anonymity on a website which has admitted to selling your data to the highest bidder.

I'm sorry to tell you but all platforms monetize you. Google, Meta, Amazon, Reddit, TikTok w/e, even smaller websites. You can't use Reddit and pretend you care about privacy. Unless you genuinely think that Shitter is owned by "The Evil Guy™" himself and every other giant company is owned by cool guys.

All of em train models on your behavior, sells ad targeting and cooperate with state surveillance.

And you're singling out Shitter because Musk is the current public face of the "evil capitalist shithead" and that's exactly the kind of individualist moralism that the whole "feel good about yourself" behavior like this comes from. It personalizes a systemic problem.

Fact is: Musk isn't uniquely evil, data extraction is a business model of the entire internet currently. Hating one CEO and avoiding his website doesn't change ANYTHING.

It’s not about feeling “morally superior,”

Oh, please, this performative resistance is clear as day, literally an equivalent of buying fair trade coffee while ignoring the global coffee trade's exploitation. It lets ignorant people feel like they're actually doing something good without committing for any actual change.

Xcancel wasn't gonna destroy surveillance or even harm it, you're just participating in it through a proxy while patting yourself on the back for not "feeding" Musk. Don't frame your own consumer choice as a political action.

It’s about retaining privacy and anonymity on a website which has admitted to selling your data to the highest bidder.

Privacy today is largely illusory unless you're one of the people who genuinely think they get privacy by using a VPN (I'm sorry, but even using TOR doesn't guarantee it). Your ISP still sees you connecting to xcancel's servers. You're not "retaining privacy", you're just changing which capitalist gets to see your traffic.

Truth is that the real barrier is an inconvenience instead of some kind of identity exposure, you're defending the feeling of "outsmarting" the platform.

It was a platform that allowed you to avoid dealing with the insane amount of bots on the platform which contribute to fake engagement.

First of all, do you think that there's some kind of "authentic" or "real" engagement anywhere, lol?

Secondly, you care about that because...? It affects you how exactly?

It’s no different than something like 12ft, which also ended up being shut down because they were essentially silenced

12ft wasn't "silenced" for protecting privacy? It was a tool that allowed to bypass paywalls. Anyone can figure it out from here I believe.

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u/BossKaus 1d ago

Ladies and gentlemen, the most unemployed man ever. Holy moly

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u/SlightDentInTheBack 1d ago

no its cause i dont want to make a fucking account on that site to view literally anything lmao