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original, saw this somewhere else too. ddos stuff. this one blames ru for archive.today mess. sounds about right. didn' intend it to look like an announcement here. it kind of did. post based on ars story, apparently. who knows

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[–] anghenfil@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

How does the paywall circumvention of archive.today works?

[–] ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 13 hours ago

I guess that they genuinely owned subscriptions for popular paywalled sites.

[–] anthropozaen@feddit.org 6 points 17 hours ago

It identifies itself as a google (or other) crawler, which sites often allow and give the full content to, for better SEO.