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		drdeca on Oct 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wait, what's a bookmarklet? What’s the purpose of the randomization in the Twitter to nitter one?

branon on Oct 25, 2023 [–]

I bet you it's to make spamming the button a useful action if one of the instances is overloaded or rate limited, you can click a few more times until a page loads

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