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Another way to browse one-off sites one visits is to through a mirror like https://archive.is/ https://archive.is/ (I exclusively use mirrors to view posts on c
by ignoramous 6y ago
Another way to browse one-off sites one visits is to through a mirror like https://archive.is/ https://archive.is/ (I exclusively use mirrors to view posts on content aggregators like Medium, Substack, Buzzfeed, Blogspot, Wordpress; annoying News websites that download a gazillion files; and file-hosting websies like imgur).
A caveat: When you submit a request to archive a url, archive.is sends the client-ip (X-Forwarded-For) to the destination server.
- runxel 6y agoLittle bit OT, but I always wondered what archive.is does better than archive.org....
- ignoramous 6y agoarchive.org archives any digital content; including larger (media) files. archive.org also has several other active archive projects than just the Wayback Machine. It also respects robots.txt. archive.org is a non-profit based in SF. archive.is archives webpages by stripping it off of any dynamic content, but it tries its best to capture a dynamic (multi) page (spa) anyway (for example, twitter threads, linkedin profiles). It limits file-sizes up to 50MB (I think?), and works best with text-heavy webpages (news and blogs, for example). archive.is is ran by a for-profit company based in NY, but it isn't clear who is in fact behind it. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wp:archive.is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wp:archive.is