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Comment by delichon

16 hours ago

Twitter has a history of tracking down leakers by watermarks.

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-leaks-twitter/

Nitter might want to make sure that their scrapes are bit-identical to other accounts to defeat this.

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kay_o  8 hours ago

Threat model a bit different, they can just request xcancel.com/unique-string and check what IP or account requested unique-string IMO

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