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Is there any evidence anyone is using the internet archive to bypass the Times’ soft paywall? Internet Archive is slow as hell. That would be a miserable way t
by eduction 3y ago
Is there any evidence anyone is using the internet archive to bypass the Times’ soft paywall?
Internet Archive is slow as hell. That would be a miserable way to read the Times. There are various higher performance ways to achieve the same result (eg disabling JavaScript for nytimes.com).
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- Etheryte 3y agoInternet Archive links are found in comments on HN all the time, not just for the New York Times, but for nearly any site using a paywall.
- bradyat 3y agoYou are confusing the Internet Archive and archive.ph, which are very different things
- mrbombastic 3y ago? No, many people do this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30154781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30154781
- eduction 3y agoAnd archive.is which is the one I see here the most. Ok now I understand so many of the replies in this thread. For anyone else reading thei who doesn’t know: Internet Archive is archive.org aka the Wayback Machine. It takes like 10 seconds to load a page but has years old versions of pages.
- mrbombastic 3y agoI for one have done this and there are websites and extensions that do exactly that, take a url and return the archive url to bypass the paywall. As much as I love internet archive i don’t think it is debatable people use it for this purpose.