Shouldn't they focus on the no. 1 law breaker and court ignorer in the country?
Tackling the problems that really matter. Good job, FBI.
Fucking clowns.
Oh matters to them all right, and their boss.
And it's not like they're gonna stop them anyways.
Seems like another attempt to stifle the flow of information.
I'll take Things fascists do for 400 please, Alex.
I remember when ICE took down Zlibrary...
"Infamous"? More like wonderfully useful.
It occasionally catches things that archive.org misses too. Also really nice to have an alternative.
It’d be nice to have a way of doing decentralised archiving while still keeping the trust. If you’re trying to prove that a site really said something at a certain date to another person, pointing to your own archive is kinda useless.
The news sites are trying to have it both ways. Serving the news articles to visitors and then covering them up with a paywall with browser tricks.
I'm a bit sympathetic to them — they do need to get paid to keep operating, and ads don't cover the cost of providing news anymore
So you feel sorry for the fact they are legacy industry that refuses to adapt?
I would put that more on the ad networks, if the ads were related to the article, it may generate a few more clicks. The ads are completely random and built off a profile they assume would contain relevant info about me... but it doesn't really seem to be accurate (this is kind of by my own choosing though).
Instead articles about rebuilding cars should have ads related to perhaps rebuilding cars and not some fucking nutritional supplement or some other unrelated thing.
Better ad targeting does make ads more valuable...but because only Google and Facebook have the visibility and ML to do it effectively, they wound up with all the ad revenue. Everybody else ended up with a few pennies
Owners win.
If I have a plot of land with some cherry trees on it, I can get a landless person to pick most of them for free.
I make an offer "for every 100 pounds/kilos of cherries you pick for me, I'll let you keep 1". If the person who receives such an offer has no land of their own, they have to agree to avoid starvation.
That's why our system needs a huge class of the landless, resourceless, and assetless people. Then for the priveledge of touching a privatized resource you have accept the privateer's conditions.
Fencing off resources and protecting the fence by the threat of death is how this scam works.
And it is impossible to fix this societal problem by simply trading more and better as an individual. The ruleset of the game is tuned for mass free energy extraction from the assetless class at the macro level.
Why isn't the FBI doing anything about Epstein island list ? That's more important than some archive website.
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.
Technically they are funded by taxes, so it's rather "whatcha gonna do, declare war on me?".
They probably are. They're trying to make sure it hasn't leaked onto archive.is.
Because the victims of the rape of children in the Epstein case don't have the money. The perpetrators do.
Because the archive site points out their deceptions, lies and cruelty
You can just go fuck a duck. Archive is super useful. Leave it alone.
Sign in to read, no thank you:
Meta
AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.
https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/
Softest paywall ever - they do such good work, they can have an anonymous email of mine no problem
Magic link’s so annoying though, just wanna password (they’re journalists not techies though is the long and short of it)
The owner should release the source code / configuration, in whatever state it's in, before things escalate further. It'd suck for all their work to go down the drain. I'm sure there'd be people willing to adopt the project and host instances.
If you agree and you have Tumblr, would you consider asking them anonymously?
Friends of tech Bros Incorporated.
Regulatory capture is complete in the states.
I get around paywalls by disabling JavaScript when I read the news
I use the mozilla reader mode
Holy crap, I'd never thought of that. Does it work pretty reliably?
voyager automatically opens links in reader mode for me and it works about 80% of the time
(but this article it doesn’t work for)
Interesting, my experience with reader mode to get around paywalls is just about the opposite - it works may 20% of the time. Probably different sites that we're visiting.
I have JavaScript disabled by default on all pages, I only activate it if I need to, as per the privacyguides recommendations, but on this site at least, it still won't load the article. If I want to read it I'd have to either register or use the archive.
No for real, why? Why are they persuing this?
It's hard to rewrite the past if someone's keeping receipts
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5326573/internet-archive-wayback-machine-trump
Different archive, same principle.
That would explain why adguard’s public DNS started blocking it (labeled vaguely as “legal request”).
Bypass Paywalls Clean is still around.
Bypass Paywalls Clean for Firefox
Extension: https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
Support only: https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_firefox_support/issues
Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome
Extension: https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
Support only: https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_chrome_support/issues
Updating
For Firefox at least, if you pin the extension to the browser toolbar (or whatever the space next to the address bar is called) you will see a little yellow triangle badge whenever there is an update. Click the extension icon to update.
For Firefox mobile and forks, you may get a notification that there is an update but I haven't found a one click solution so I just go to the repo, download the xpi and install. To install from file on mobile you need to go to Settings > About Firefox > Tap the logo several times until you see Debug enabled > Go back to main Settings > Under Advanced look for Install extension from file.
Damn, I was wondering why it was down. I hope it goes back up soon, its such a useful tool.
Question: how does this site differ in function to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine?
They dont let sites opt-out, and they do a much more seamless job of enabling people to archive paywalled content
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
