The news sites are trying to have it both ways. Serving the news articles to visitors and then covering them up with a paywall with browser tricks.
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2025
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I'm a bit sympathetic to them — they do need to get paid to keep operating, and ads don't cover the cost of providing news anymore
I would put that more on the ad networks, if the ads were related to the article, it may generate a few more clicks. The ads are completely random and built off a profile they assume would contain relevant info about me... but it doesn't really seem to be accurate (this is kind of by my own choosing though).
Instead articles about rebuilding cars should have ads related to perhaps rebuilding cars and not some fucking nutritional supplement or some other unrelated thing.
Better ad targeting does make ads more valuable...but because only Google and Facebook have the visibility and ML to do it effectively, they wound up with all the ad revenue. Everybody else ended up with a few pennies
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"Infamous"? More like wonderfully useful.
It occasionally catches things that archive.org misses too. Also really nice to have an alternative.
It’d be nice to have a way of doing decentralised archiving while still keeping the trust. If you’re trying to prove that a site really said something at a certain date to another person, pointing to your own archive is kinda useless.
The owner should release the source code / configuration, in whatever state it's in, before things escalate further. It'd suck for all their work to go down the drain. I'm sure there'd be people willing to adopt the project and host instances.
If you agree and you have Tumblr, would you consider asking them anonymously?
I get around paywalls by disabling JavaScript when I read the news
I use the mozilla reader mode
Holy crap, I'd never thought of that. Does it work pretty reliably?
voyager automatically opens links in reader mode for me and it works about 80% of the time
(but this article it doesn’t work for)
Interesting, my experience with reader mode to get around paywalls is just about the opposite - it works may 20% of the time. Probably different sites that we're visiting.
I have JavaScript disabled by default on all pages, I only activate it if I need to, as per the privacyguides recommendations, but on this site at least, it still won't load the article. If I want to read it I'd have to either register or use the archive.
Tackling the problems that really matter. Good job, FBI.
Fucking clowns.
Oh matters to them all right, and their boss.
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The FBI is probably going nuts here because someone inadvertently archived the Epstein files and everyone at HQ is panicking. They need to purge it for the Internet before someone discovers that archived content, and so they’re using CP as an excuse.
In fairness, if they are hosting those files, there is a very good chance there is cp
One domain is already blocked here in Italy for CP
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Seems like another attempt to stifle the flow of information.
I'll take Things fascists do for 400 please, Alex.
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The archive runs Apache Hadoop and Apache Accumulo. All data is stored on HDFS, textual content is duplicated 3 times among servers in 2 datacenters and images are duplicated 2 times. Both datacenters are in Europe, with OVH hosting at least one of them.
To avoid detection, archive.today runs via a botnet that cycles through countless IP addresses, making it quite difficult for grumpy webmasters to stop their sites getting scraped. Access to paywalled sites is through logins secured via unclear means, which need to be replenished constantly: here’s the creator asking for Instagram credentials. Finally, the serving of the website is also subject to a perpetual game of cat and mouse: “I can only predict that there will be approximately one trouble with domains per year and each fifth trouble will result in domain loss.” As of today, archive.today still works, but users are redirected to archive.md.
Why isn't the FBI doing anything about Epstein island list ? That's more important than some archive website.
They probably are. They're trying to make sure it hasn't leaked onto archive.is.
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.
Because the victims of the rape of children in the Epstein case don't have the money. The perpetrators do.
Because the archive site points out their deceptions, lies and cruelty
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You can just go fuck a duck. Archive is super useful. Leave it alone.
go fuck a duck
Poor duck....
Auto correct.
They meant to say suck a fuck, not fuck a duck.
I'm assuming the duck's on top
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Friends of tech Bros Incorporated.
Regulatory capture is complete in the states.
No for real, why? Why are they persuing this?
It's hard to rewrite the past if someone's keeping receipts
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5326573/internet-archive-wayback-machine-trump
Different archive, same principle.
The administration didn't threaten to take down the IA or investigate it or anything like that, so it's not similar at all.
It's conspiratorial to think the FBI is doing this to censor or hide something. archive.is is primarily used to get around paywalls. The most likely explanation is news sites complained to the FBI that their copyrights are being violated (which is true), so the FBI is investigating. They've had a problem with falling revenue for a decade or more at this point as everything went online and people expected to get instant access for free in contrast to print media.
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