Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
No JavaScript or ads
All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter
Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)
Lightweight (for @nim_lang, 60KB vs 784KB from twitter.com)
RSS feeds
Themes
Mobile support (responsive design)
AGPLv3 licensed, no proprietary instances permitted
Nitter's GitHub wiki contains instances and browser extensions maintained by the community.
Why use Nitter?
It's impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled. For privacy-minded folks, preventing JavaScript analytics and IP-based tracking is important, but apart from using a VPN and uBlock/uMatrix, it's impossible. Despite being behind a VPN and using heavy-duty adblockers, you can get accurately tracked with your browser's fingerprint, no JavaScript required. This all became particularly important after Twitter removed the ability for users to control whether their data gets sent to advertisers.
Using an instance of Nitter (hosted on a VPS for example), you can browse Twitter without JavaScript while retaining your privacy. In addition to respecting your privacy, Nitter is on average around 15 times lighter than Twitter, and in most cases serves pages faster (eg. timelines load 2-4x faster).
In the future a simple account system will be added that lets you follow Twitter users, allowing you to have a clean chronological timeline without needing a Twitter account.
tying into this as somewhat security related, put pihole on your network. It's an add blocker, domain filter, etc. It is not, and I repeat it is not a firewall, but it can help reduce unwanted traffic, such as that targeted analytic crap, or filter unwanted domains coming through if you have children.
Kudos to everyone using Nitter. Please continue to do so.
For those of us who don't know, what is nitter.net?
Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
No JavaScript or ads All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required) Lightweight (for @nim_lang, 60KB vs 784KB from twitter.com) RSS feeds Themes Mobile support (responsive design) AGPLv3 licensed, no proprietary instances permitted Nitter's GitHub wiki contains instances and browser extensions maintained by the community.
Why use Nitter? It's impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled. For privacy-minded folks, preventing JavaScript analytics and IP-based tracking is important, but apart from using a VPN and uBlock/uMatrix, it's impossible. Despite being behind a VPN and using heavy-duty adblockers, you can get accurately tracked with your browser's fingerprint, no JavaScript required. This all became particularly important after Twitter removed the ability for users to control whether their data gets sent to advertisers.
Using an instance of Nitter (hosted on a VPS for example), you can browse Twitter without JavaScript while retaining your privacy. In addition to respecting your privacy, Nitter is on average around 15 times lighter than Twitter, and in most cases serves pages faster (eg. timelines load 2-4x faster).
In the future a simple account system will be added that lets you follow Twitter users, allowing you to have a clean chronological timeline without needing a Twitter account.
tying into this as somewhat security related, put pihole on your network. It's an add blocker, domain filter, etc. It is not, and I repeat it is not a firewall, but it can help reduce unwanted traffic, such as that targeted analytic crap, or filter unwanted domains coming through if you have children.