Could This Be The End of Privacy Frontends? https://neat.tube/videos/watch/f7a73d79-5d76-4df2-b56a-bad53fbc715f X.com has sent a cease and desist letter to Nitter, the privacy focused frontend for Twitter, demanding immediate takedown of the service and its repositories. This move brings into question whether other privacy frontends could also suffer the same fate, we'll discuss this and more on This Week In Privacy #68! 0:00 Intro 0:39 Start of podcast 1:15 X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping 21:25 Android 17 adds ECH support to make web browsing harder to track 35:52 Apple Won't Change Hide My Email Domain After Backlash 40:47 Site updates 47:09 Meta agrees to pay $18 billion settle US lawsuit over children's social media addiction 1:19:36 Microsoft tests new privacy controls for Windows 11 desktop apps 1:25:39 Introducing Obscura VPN for Windows 1:32:06 Q&A 1:45:09 Outro Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:04:40 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://neat.tube Could This Be The End of Privacy Frontends? https://neat.tube/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://neat.tube/videos/watch/f7a73d79-5d76-4df2-b56a-bad53fbc715f All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://neat.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder. <![CDATA[Could This Be The End of Privacy Frontends? - ExtremeDullard]]> https://neat.tube/w/wzHri9wyeS73e2wkTfhbFz;threadId=16300 https://neat.tube/w/wzHri9wyeS73e2wkTfhbFz;threadId=16300 Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:59:02 GMT Nitter is a frontend to what is now a fascist social media. Good riddance.

As for other frontends, they have been the targets of lawsuits and technical attacks for as long as they’ve existed, and they’re still around. I’m not really worried.

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