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title: "Nitter put behind HTTP Basic Auth"
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subtitle: "Sorry for the inconvenience but I'm tired"
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description: Nitter has been put behind an HTTP BasicAuth dialogue to mitigate abuse of automated DMCA tools
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date: 2021-12-30 13:10 -0500
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[dmca.pro](https://dmca.pro) has been issuing DMCA notices against Twitter
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content accessed through [our Nitter instance](https://nitter.nixnet.services)
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every week for almost six months. I spent a few months ignoring them but they
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started CCing our server provider, [Hetzner](https://hetzner.com).
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For the last few months, Hetzner has been forwarding these notices to me and
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creating abuse tickets for every single one of them. They've started threatening
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to disable the IP address for NixNet's primary server; this would effectively
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take all of NixNet down. I've responded to every single one of these abuse
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tickets, but in the last few, I also asked to speak with a real person from
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Hetzner to discuss the situation. I have received no response.
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I've been dealing with this crap for months and I'm tired of it. I put Nitter
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behind an [HTTP Basic
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Auth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication) dialogue so the
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automated tools these individuals from dmca.pro are using won't be helpful.
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- Username: `nitter`
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- Password: `nitter`
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Most RSS readers will allow you to enter credentials when adding a feed. If not,
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try using this URL with embedded credentials and see if it works.
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- `https://nitter:nitter@nitter.nixnet.services`
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I apologise for the inconvenience but I'm tired of being inundated with
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senseless DMCA notices and of being threatened by our server provider.
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