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 2layout: post
 3title: "Nitter put behind HTTP Basic Auth"
 4subtitle: "Sorry for the inconvenience but I'm tired"
 5description: Nitter has been put behind an HTTP BasicAuth dialogue to mitigate abuse of automated DMCA tools
 6date: 2021-12-30 13:10 -0500
 7---
 8
 9[dmca.pro](https://dmca.pro) has been issuing DMCA notices against Twitter
10content accessed through [our Nitter instance](https://nitter.nixnet.services)
11every week for almost six months. I spent a few months ignoring them but they
12started CCing our server provider, [Hetzner](https://hetzner.com).
13
14For the last few months, Hetzner has been forwarding these notices to me and
15creating abuse tickets for every single one of them. They've started threatening
16to disable the IP address for NixNet's primary server; this would effectively
17take all of NixNet down. I've responded to every single one of these abuse
18tickets, but in the last few, I also asked to speak a real person from Hetzner
19to discuss the situation. I have received no response.
20
21I've been dealing with this crap for months and I'm tired of it. I put Nitter
22behind an [HTTP Basic
23Auth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication) dialogue so the
24automated tools these individuals from dmca.pro are using won't be helpful.
25
26- Username: `nitter`
27- Password: `nitter`
28
29Most RSS readers will allow you to enter credentials when adding a feed. If not,
30try using this URL with embedded credentials and see if it works.
31
32- `https://nitter:nitter@nitter.nixnet.services`
33
34I apologise for the inconvenience but I'm tired of being inundated with
35senseless DMCA notices and of being threatened by our server provider.