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I work out of cafes a lot, so I use a commercial VPN often. This means that I am unable to read Reddit. (Not to mention I have to pass two Cloudflare captchas on most other sites.)

If I can't use Xcancel, then I won't be able to read Twitter on the rare occasion I want to.

Strangely, as someone who is online a lot, I seem to be getting gradually cut off from other Internet users. HN is kind of the last survivor for me.

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You are replying on HN with an account. Just make an account on X if there's content you want to see.

We got used to something being free and open, doesn't mean this is how it should be.

Sorry to move the goalposts on you, but the specific feature whose elimination I am lamenting is anonymous, read-only access. HN still supports this. Making an account kind of defeats the purpose.

They collect your passport and facial scan for "security purposes" if they feel like it:

https://help.x.com/en/rules-and-policies/verification-policy

This must be Musk's "free speech absolutism".

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