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> Probably the people who operate archive.is just purchased subscriptions for the most common newspaper sites. And then they can use something like https://pptr
by tivert 3y ago
> Probably the people who operate archive.is just purchased subscriptions for the most common newspaper sites. And then they can use something like https://pptr.dev/ https://pptr.dev/ to automate login and article retrieval.
I wouldn't be surprised. IIRC, the whole thing is privately funded by one individual, who must have a lot of money to spare.
- Stagnant 3y agoI don't think anyone knows who runs archive.is. I've tried looking into it a couple of times in the past but there is surprisingly little information to be found. It must cost thousands if not tens of thousands a month to host all that data and AFAIK they do not monetize it in any way. From what I gather it probably is some Russian person as there were some old stackoverflow conversations regarding the site that lead to an empty github account with a russian name. Also back in 2015 the site owner blocked all Finnish ip addresses due to "an incident at the border"[1]. Finnish IPs have since been unblocked. It appears the site owner somehow thought he could end up in EU wide blacklist which seemed like very conspiratorial thinking from him. 1: https://archive.is/Pum1p https://archive.is/Pum1p
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- killingtime74 3y agoWhen I visit each page has three ads, Left right and bottom. Maybe you have an ad blocker?