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https://archive.ph/ https://archive.ph/

• bombcar 2y ago
  This one is even more frightening, as it's (as far as I know) a one-man show that could disappear at any time.
  • vgkjfhwebfk 2y ago
    Yes, it could, but IA, which - up to now - looked more professional and reliable could, too. And, unexpectedly, that's what's happening now. Maybe archive.ph will also surprise us, by being more resilient. Anyway, it's an alternative, for now.
• rbanffy 2y ago
  This is NOT anywhere near what the IA provides.
  • vgkjfhwebfk 2y ago
    Yes, it's an alternative, not a copy. For example, it doesn't provide "emergency library" style borrowing, and maybe this missing feature is a pro, not a con.
    • lima 2y ago
      It archives a much smaller part of the internet, it't not an IA replacement.
    • lxgr 2y ago
      On the other hand, it's doing something similarly dubious with paywalled news articles in that it bypasses many news sites' paywalls and supposedly injects its own ads next to the content. There are even many comment threads detailing their strategy to avoid legal takedown requests by serving content via an "anti-CDN" (i.e. always serving content from abroad whenever possible, to make legal actions more difficult).
• denton-scratch 2y ago
  I tried to hit archive.is, archive.ph and archive.org yesterday. They were all down, and archive.is seems to still be down.
  • lxgr 2y ago
    Any chance you're using Cloudflare DNS (directly or via e.g. iCloud Private Relay)? The people (person?) running archive have a somewhat complicated history with them.
    • denton-scratch 2y ago
      Not using Cloudflare DNS, I use my own recursive resolver. And by "archive", I assume you mean archive.org; archive.is and archive.ph are different people.
      • lxgr 2y ago
        No, I meant .is, .today etc; archive.org does not do weird DNS things to my knowledge.