archive.today

“it's been banned from Wikipedia for months because it was enlisting viewers' computers in a DDoS”

“they make silent changes to pages, their ownership is opaque, and they reserve the right to just disappear without a trace tomorrow”

“The latter also serving you the content with no paywalls, ads, JavaScript, permalinks that 404 after a year”

“Besides tampering with content, the site was also using visitors to DDOS a blog that mentioned the owner of archive.today.”

“they're a sanctioned terrorist organisation, so if you donate to them your bank account will be frozen and you'll go to jail”

“They also don't arbitrarily nuke entire domains (with legal content) from the archive”

“archive.today is superior to web.archive.org as it breaks less when archiving sources”

“Archive.ph returns different results to Cloudflare’s resolvers intentionally, preventing Cloudflare DNS users from resolving it correctly.”

“with the recent google captcha requiring phones and some people facing this issue and multitude of other issues with archive.is”

“It is valuable service until the websites get their shit together and finally fix their payments model.”

“If, when I visit your site, your site causes my browser to participate in a DDoS attack without my knowledge, your site is malicious.”

“The operator of archive.today (presumably one, at most a handful of people) can edit archived pages on archive.today”

“The owner of archive.is modifies contents of articles already so I hope you’re not actually depending on it as an archive.”

“The ‘small sin’ of wielding your userbase as a botnet is only palatable for HN’s readers because the site provides a desirable use”

“Archive.today on the other hand is a charitable archival project offered to the public for free.”

“without archive.today a substantial % of HN posts would be unreadable for nearly all of the audience”

“they embarked on a DDOS campaign using the traffic of archive.is against a journalist trying to uncover their identity”

“He has created one of the most valuable services on the internet to protect freedom of information.”

“you can simply input archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph before the link and it will either take you to the archived page”

“they changed a "commenting as: [their alias]" UI element to "commenting as: [name of the blogger they were fighting with]"”

“If archive.whatever wasn't so useful to the general public, it'd be hard to distinguish from a criminal operation given the way it operates”

“it's a great archival service if the most censored people are able to use it without their archives being censored”

“I'd rather deal with this weird feud than not have access to any archived content that people want censored.”

“Given the unclear ownership situation, it makes sense not to rely on them for anything long term.”

“archive.today works surprisingly well for me, often succeeding where archive.org fails.”

“Archive.today provides a better service (all things considered) compared to Wikipedia, at least when it comes to current affairs”

“It was running it via a script and intentionally using cache busting techniques to try to increase load on the hosted wordpress infrastructure.”

“he used to captcha-loop anyone using Cloudflare's DNS resolver because they don't send the IP subnet of clients to upstreams”

“archive.is has put a lot of effort and cost into its defence. And all for free to us, the users.”

“has all the right tools to publish information the governments and the largest of companies want silenced”

“Unfortunately Archive.today complies with these attack requests in some situations, but is still usually better than others.”

“letting people read things they otherwise couldn't, and that increases the interest of the topic”

“I'm always amazed by Archive.md/.is/whatever. To this day I don't understand how they manage to bypass a lot of paywalls.”

“This will work on most article sites to show you an archived version of it without any of these annoyances”

“They immediately removed the content upon being notified about it. That's the "standard" level of responsibility for any site that hosts user-uploaded content.”

“the site is pretty advanced, it can handle complicated sites and even social networks”

“corporations and governments are already abusing their ability to retroactively change history”

“When the proxy operator is (1) anonymous, (2) the potential target of coercion, and (3) outside the user's jurisdiction”

“They don't collect any personal information - one of the reasons why it is so popular.”

“It's the only way to stay informed from diverse sources since proliferation of paywalls started”