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Archive.is mirrors have been linked north of 15,000 times on HN over 9 years [0]. (Archive.is is the more popular URL for the same [1] service). I'm skeptical t
by perihelions 5y ago
Archive.is mirrors have been linked north of 15,000 times on HN over 9 years [0]. (Archive.is is the more popular URL for the same [1] service). I'm skeptical that actually-malicious behavior would have gone unnoticed for so long, on this site of all places.
Unless your position is all intrusive analytics scripts are "malware" -- in which case I philosophically agree, but it's futile.
[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=archive.is&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=archive.is&type=comment (note Algolia's exact # is nondeterministic and changes on refresh)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
(Full disclosure: I've linked many of these myself).
- hericium 5y agoLast time I checked, archive.is required JS and was showing a page imitating Cloudflare's but using reCaptcha. I actually got downvoted after pointing out that archive.is requires JS when linked article can be read with no JS.