3 ms·
>about the paywall workarounds that are frequent on HN—I was genuinely shocked to learn they hadn’t heard about it. Is the Internet Archive regularly used as a
by boomboomsubban 5mo ago
>about the paywall workarounds that are frequent on HN—I was genuinely shocked to learn they hadn’t heard about it.
Is the Internet Archive regularly used as a paywall workaround? Generally it's archive.is, which has no connection to the IA.
- frm88 5mo agoYes, he got that wrong. The IA doesn't remove paywalls.
- deleted 5mo ago[deleted]
- tolerance 5mo agoThat's not the point.
- boomboomsubban 5mo agoHuh? IA not doing what they claim seems fairly important to their point.
- deleted 5mo ago[deleted]
- Wowfunhappy 5mo agoIt’s certainly not as common as archive.is, but I’ve seen it done on HN. I even commented at one point something to the effect of “this seems like a great way to get news sites to block the Internet Archive”…