https://archive.ph/CftqX

  • sexywheat [none/use name]
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    9 days ago

    Can someone explain to me how these archive dot ph links magically skirt around all these paywalls?

    • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]
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      9 days ago

      They have an FAQ and a blog where they go into a fair bit of technical detail, but basically they do cookie isolation and support only some javascript, and for hard blocks they get stuff from AMP.

      https://blog.archive.today/post/675805841411178496/how-does-archive-bypass-hard-paywalls-for
      https://blog.archive.today/post/678436941726990336/there-are-at-least-two-use-cases-for-your-service