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According to their blog they use AMP: https://blog.archive.today/post/675805841411178496/how-does-archive-bypass-hard-paywalls-for#notes https://blog.archive.to

• JohnFen 3y ago
  Wow, an actually good use for Amp? Amazing.
  • Aachen 3y ago
    I'm sure it was an accident or honest mistake!
• flerovium 3y ago
  This explanation is incomplete. Counterexample: Amp pages are paywalled: https://www.wsj.com/articles/freeze-or-cut-spending-fight-is-main-event-in-debt-ceiling-talks-3ffccb?mod=hp_lead_pos1&amp=1 https://www.wsj.com/articles/freeze-or-cut-spending-fight-is... https://amp.wsj.com/articles/freeze-or-cut-spending-fight-is-main-event-in-debt-ceiling-talks-3ffccb?mod=hp_lead_pos1 https://amp.wsj.com/articles/freeze-or-cut-spending-fight-is... archive.is isn't: https://archive.md/LaiOX https://archive.md/LaiOX
  • Reventlov 3y ago
    I can access the wsj article without any account using https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea... (bypass paywall clean)
  • Deathmax 3y ago
    For WSJ at least, it appears that archive.is is fetching the AMP page, which returns the full content of the article and is hidden with CSS, and modifying the page to unhide the paywalled content + hide ads. It might be using other techniques as well for bypassing paywalls, be it referer/user-agent spoofing (some old archives of sites that echo back HTTP request headers have archive.is sending a Referer of google.co.uk).
  • nora-puchreiner 3y ago
    Try this: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/freeze-or-cut-spending-fight-is-main-event-in-debt-ceiling-talks-3ffccb https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/freeze-or-cut-spending-figh...