# XCancel

> Use XCancel instead of Twitter.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/xcancel](https://chrome-stats.com/d/xcancel)

## Overview

- **ID:** `xcancel`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** gxvwb
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 4,286
- **Weekly downloads:** 23
- **Rating:** 4.84 / 5 (25 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-02-18
- **First published:** 2020-04-05
- **Size:** 22 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/xcancel/)

## Description

<strong>A message from XCancel:</strong>
<blockquote>On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.
The service XCancel is stopped until further notice.
We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now.
Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.</blockquote>
<strong>XCancel</strong> is a Firefox Add-on to redirect all Twitter links to use the <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/06ff7cdd4a78f310b51cda0a60f1c617b1f47ba063c73d254ecc824e7053981e/https%3A//xcancel.com" rel="nofollow">xcancel.com</a> - a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. This Add-on has no affiliation with XCancel.

## Rankings

- #1,308 — Overall
- #61 — Feeds, News & Blogging
- #269 — Privacy & Security
- #60 — scan
- #76 — receive
- #103 — legal

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `*://*.twitter.com/*`
- `*://*.x.com/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows the extension to observe and analyze traffic in flight for the selected hosts.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/xcancel)