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Why do people keep linking to archive.*? It just endlessly redirects to captchas for large swaths of users. I've heard they have some tiff with Cloudflare or F
by KennyBlanken 3y ago
Why do people keep linking to archive.*? It just endlessly redirects to captchas for large swaths of users.
I've heard they have some tiff with Cloudflare or Firefox or I don't actually care, because I don't have this problem with any other site.
Their site is unreachable, by their choice*. Find some other service that doesn't discriminate against users of the most popular open-source web browser, please.
- parineum 3y agoFeel free to post a link.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- AndrewDucker 3y agoBecause it works for us. We don't have any weird problems from having set things up in weird ways, and so we use it.
- thot_experiment 3y agoArchive specifically hates privacy. They want EDNS info and if you don't give it to them they will serve you garbage. They probably hate privacy because it makes it easier to deal with bots, so it's not really archive's fault, nor is it the end users fault for not wanting to share PII. Ultimately there are a lot of bad actors on the internet and that makes it hard to have nice things. It works for you because you are willing to have your rights eroded for comfort (a totally valid choice). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
- helsinkiandrew 3y ago> .. or I don't actually care So why should we care? - make the case why posting archive.* is bad or post a working link yourself!