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ben_w • today at 7:03 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

if someone shares me a link to x.com, it is literally faster for me to edit the URL to xcancel, even on my phone which makes this awkward, and load that, than to wait for the original URL to load.

xcancel does not have a login barrier, nor all the popup messages.

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defrost • today at 7:14 AM

Of all the many ways to automate that redirect, https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ isn't bad.

  Redirect: https://x.com/*
        to: https://xcancel.com/$1
and

  Redirect: https://twitter.com/*
        to: https://xcancel.com/$1
( also reddit to old.reddit, various cdn image servers to deliver hi-res versions, etc )
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