Was it ever publicly communicated how 12ft or archive.ph|is work? Or is it something they keep to themselves ?
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#12Was it ever publicly communicated how 12ft or archive.ph|is work? Or is it something they keep to themselves ?
I think (in the case of 12ft) they were just impersonating Googlebot.
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#13https://archive.ph/ We need to keep making more of these.
Or stop talking about them. No but seriously I always wonder how other sites or workaround get taken down, but nobody cares about archive. I just hope it continues to stay under the radar.
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#14We all hate adverts, some of us don't like or can't pay. Those who pay, have access to a few publications they enjoy. It would be absurd to pay for all the publications, all the streaming services, but we don't want monopolies either. What could be a solution for this madness?
A decade ago, I was really interested in the idea of using a crypto like what Doge was at the time for this specific use case. Back then, a dogecoin was a fraction of a cent so it was a better fit than its current valuations.
Any individual page impression is only worth a few cents to the publisher anyway. I still think there's a lot of potential value in something similar as infrastructure for facilitating ultra-microtransactions on that scale that don't get completely consumed by credit card processors, etc.
I'm not going to maintain subscriptions to every news source out there, but I'd be more than happy to toss something in the tip jar from a fund I could top-up on a regular basis.
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#16https://github.com/wasi-master/13ft
Not me jumping to the link only to realize I already have it stared ;)
Great work.
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#17It hadn't worked for a long time.
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#18Was it ever publicly communicated how 12ft or archive.ph|is work? Or is it something they keep to themselves ?
I think (in the case of 12ft) they were just impersonating Googlebot.
That's surprising because Googlebot publishes IP ranges for its crawlers and it's fairly simple to block fake crawlers these days (super easy through Cloudflare, for example).
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#19We all hate adverts, some of us don't like or can't pay. Those who pay, have access to a few publications they enjoy. It would be absurd to pay for all the publications, all the streaming services, but we don't want monopolies either. What could be a solution for this madness?
A decade ago, I was really interested in the idea of using a crypto like what Doge was at the time for this specific use case. Back then, a dogecoin was a fraction of a cent so it was a better fit than its current valuations. Any individual page impression is only worth a few cents to the publisher anyway. I still think there's a lot of potential value in something similar as infrastructure for facilitating ultra-mic…
I like that idea. If you opened an article you wanted to read, you could be prompted to pay a few cents. You click "yes", funds are transferred, and you read the article.
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#20I would understand if media were actually working - reporting on local issues, exposing corruption or where things are not working for residents.
Reality is that current media are mouthpieces of the rich designed to make us act against our own interest and help widen the wealth gap.
These media companies are parasites.