Never seen xcancel before, love that!

Didn't work for me, just kept reloading a page verifying my browser.

You can replace xcancel.com by nitter.net, it worked for me.

Like this: https://nitter.net/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432

Both are running the same software but I guess the protection of the sites work differently.

The software it runs is called Nitter. You can also run it on your own server to reduce load on the popular servers and make it harder for Elon to block all copies of Nitter.

(Note the T and G keys are next to each other on QWERTY keyboards - beware typos)

There are browser extensions (eg. Redirect for Firefox) that will automatically replace x.com with xcancel.com.

You want to be using LibRedirect for this. It provides a list of public alternative frontends for a lot of sites (twitter, imgur, reddit, etc.)

You're right, it is called LibRedirect.

Why not just show the real link to ?

Because the real link now won't even let you watch a video without logging in.

Tested with incognito, works fine without login using the link

Did you try hitting play?

https://imgur.com/a/A5ajnwy

Same reason xcancel exists at all.

Personally I wouldn't want to promote X.

Valid point, done