I half thought this was archive.org they were blacklisting. Two whole different sites.
Crap. Obviously, I’m gonna gotta stop using archive.today, but it’s the only way around paywalls at numerous sites.
Removepaywalls.com (plural) inserts ads, often for shady operations.
Removepaywall.com (singular) usually works, but it’s tricky sharing the links (i.e., “choose option 2” or “choose option 4”).
Byebyepaywall.com has old, dead options.
Wayback Machine bombs out a lot.
And ghostarchive.org is successful so rarely it’s really a last resort.
Anyone know of any others?
The thing that has always annoyed me about archive.is is that using Firefox + VPN seems to result in endless Captcha. But works in Chrome, go figure. I’m very suspicious of sites that somehow only work properly under Chrome.
Dammit. Everyone’s been using that site to get around paywalls because it works well. Now I have to go find another one that works as well. :|
There are others that don’t DDoS blogs.
Well, yes, I’ll be off looking for them next time I need to use an archival site. I’m bummed to learn this crap about archive.ph.
Arguably the biggest problem with Wikipedia as it aged is the accumulation of dead links.
Brilliant move.
Is there a reason self hosted paywall bypass tools don’t exist? Is it because these services pay for access?
