• They have been found to have been altering the contents of the archived articles.
  • They have DDoSed a server using our browsers when we visit their site
  • Wikipedia has blacklisted it
  • It’s DNS is banned widely

Guidance published … asked editors to help remove and replace links to the following domain names used by the archive site: archive.today, archive.is, archive.ph, archive.fo, archive.li, archive.md, and archive.vn. The guidance says editors can remove Archive.today links when the original source is still online and has identical content;

Recommended alternatives include: Internet Archive Ghostarchive Megalodon

The Wikipedia guidance points out that the Internet Archive and its website, Archive.org, are “uninvolved with and entirely separate from archive.today.” The Internet Archive is a nonprofit based in the US.

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  • antonim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 day ago

    .is uses some techniques to circumvent paywalls, whereas .org just accesses the site normally. I hope a competitor to .is will show up at some point.

    • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
      12·
      1 day ago

      I user Firefox with a handful of extensions including Bypass Paywalls Clean, NoScript, und uBllock Origin. I seem to breeze past a lot of paywalls. I base that on threads here where people are complaining about paywalls blocking them that I don’t see.

      Sometimes, when a site throws a Subscribe box up to block me from reading/scrolling on the sight, I can use the uBlock element zapper to delete it and read the article. The only ones that really get me are the ones that only load a paragraph or two unless you log in.

      • hexagonwin@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        still, .is uses actual credentials to bypass hard paywalls for many news websites, which bpc-clean can’t

      • kamenlady@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        I base that on threads here where people are complaining about paywalls blocking them that I don’t see.

        I have encountered this effect specifically with guardian.com. While i never had a paywall on that site, i often get the “paywall” comment when i post something on guardian.com.