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Ask HN: Why doesn't archive.is work for me anymore?
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DAE have problems with archive.is (or the alt CC TLDs) links? They have been unusable for me for months. I get stuck doing captchas.
Safari and Chrome, "standard" and incognito windows, all 4 have the same problem. I have multiple ISP to choose from, plus my cell data, all of them fail. The badges on my various blocker exts all show no content blocked.
def not a problem with my "network" or other hosts on my network, as the captcha page claims -- i have a static IP on all my connections (except cell).
but it does work perfectly from mobile safari on the same network.
- Miner49er 3y agoDid you switch to Cloudfare's DNS? IIRC archive.is blocks their DNS servers.
- oriettaxx 3y agoor Quad9 https://www.quad9.net/support/set-up-guides https://www.quad9.net/support/set-up-guides btw: I realize now their 9.9.9.9 IP address is the "quadruple 9" in their name :) :) smart!
- ordu 3y agoI believe it has something to do with tracking, or rather with anti-tracking measures. I don't know how it works, but as you say different browsers and even different firefox profiles (with different addons set) could lead to different results. I believe, that the more paranoid I go with anti-tracking the more chance for me to stuck in a capcha loop. The issue comes not just on archive.is but some other sites as well. Sometimes I get just a statement that my browser is too old or something like that.