X Corp

X Corp, formerly Twitter, has implemented measures such as removing guest accounts and requiring login to view tweets, effectively breaking third-party proxy services like Nitter. The main developer of Nitter initially gave up in February 2024 but later decided to continue by supporting regular account types. These actions are part of X's broader efforts to restrict data access and train its AI model Grok, with a default-on data-sharing setting criticized as a dark pattern.

Breakage of proxies 2023—Present | ← Older revision | Revision as of 22:17, 25 August 2026 | || | One intermediate revision by the same user not shown | ||| | Line 59: | Line 59: | || As a response to the increased backlash, X released a feature to opt out of sharing data by navigating four different menus Settings⇒Privacy and Safety⇒Data Sharing and Personalization⇒Grok⇒Allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning .<ref {{Cite web |last=Peters |first=Jay |title=Here’s how to stop X from using your posts to train its AI |url=https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206904/x-grok-ai-train-turn-off |website=The Verge |date=26 Jul 2024 |access-date=4 Apr 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726163920/https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206904/x-grok-ai-train-turn-off |archive-date=26 Jul 2024}}</ref This setting being on by default is an example of a dark pattern . | As a response to the increased backlash, X released a feature to opt out of sharing data by navigating four different menus Settings⇒Privacy and Safety⇒Data Sharing and Personalization⇒Grok⇒Allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning .<ref {{Cite web |last=Peters |first=Jay |title=Here’s how to stop X from using your posts to train its AI |url=https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206904/x-grok-ai-train-turn-off |website=The Verge |date=26 Jul 2024 |access-date=4 Apr 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726163920/https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206904/x-grok-ai-train-turn-off |archive-date=26 Jul 2024}}</ref This setting being on by default is an example of a dark pattern . | || ===Breakage of proxies | ===Breakage of proxies ''2023—Present'' === | || Twitter/X has taken many measures such as the removal of "Guest" accounts, and Forced account|login requirement against proxies, such as | Twitter/X has taken many measures such as the removal of "Guest" accounts, and Forced account|login requirement against proxies, such as {{Wplink|Nitter}}.<ref {{Cite web |last=Carvajal Sarabia |first=Chema |date=2024-02-19 |title=You can no longer access Twitter without an account: Elon Musk has won |url=https://en.softonic.com/articles/you-can-no-longer-access-twitter-without-an-account-elon-musk-has-won |website=Softonic}}</ref <ref <nowiki https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/twitter-now-requires-an-account-to-view-tweets/</nowiki </ref <ref https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919</ref <ref <nowiki https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983</nowiki </ref It reached to the point that the main developer of Nitter gave up,<ref <nowiki https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1155 issuecomment-1913361757</nowiki </ref <ref {{Cite web |last=Brodkin |first=Jon |date=2024-02-15 |title=Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/twitter-front-end-nitter-dies-as-musk-wins-war-against-third-party-services/ |access-date=2026-03-19 |website=Ars Technica}}</ref then months later, decided to continue by supporting regular account types.<ref <nowiki https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/discussions/1212</nowiki </ref | || ==References== | ==References== |