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Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by SXX »

dakolli wrote: post #62
bulder wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DDoSing a website, modifying their archives surreptitiously to serve their own wants (which was what tipped Wikipedia towards banning their use), running weird sockpuppet campaigns to build dependence on them, and fucking with Cloudflare's DNS resolution to prevent anti-tracking measures from working. Oh and even if I wanted to ignore all of this, I couldn't use them anyways because they blackholed the majority of Fi…

archive.today has been targeted by Western institutions, like the FBI, for over a year now. Which signals to me they are the good guys.

Come on. It's not WikiLeaks. If they were targeted by FBI it would be down.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by MaxLeiter »

theletterf wrote: post #53

Be careful: paying with Google Pay is extremely easy and the default setting is monthly recurrence. If you're not logged in, the only way to cancel (as far as I know) is by sending an email, which is incredibly precarious.

Worth noting the 2:1 match is only for recurring donations. The graphic does not mention that

> When you start a recurring donation of $25 or more in September, your initial gift will be matched 2:1.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

#73

Post by mr_mitm »

warpech wrote: post #64
mr_mitm wrote: post #59

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That's a different archive

Umm, no? The parent means Wayback Machine, which is a service of Internet Archive (both at archive.org). Or am I confused?

The archive that bypasses paywalls is archive.today (or archive.is, archive.ph, ...) which is run by some shady person, not a professional organization like Wayback Machine.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by shevy-java »

theletterf wrote: post #53

Be careful: paying with Google Pay is extremely easy and the default setting is monthly recurrence. If you're not logged in, the only way to cancel (as far as I know) is by sending an email, which is incredibly precarious.

This makes Google more powerful. I don't want to yield money via any Google services ever.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by dakolli »

SXX wrote: post #71
dakolli wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

archive.today has been targeted by Western institutions, like the FBI, for over a year now. Which signals to me they are the good guys.

Come on. It's not WikiLeaks. If they were targeted by FBI it would be down.

What do you mean, I didnt make it up... Its detailed on the archive.today wikipedia page.

The media barrons in the west have bribed the US government to pursue archive criminally on their behalf for helping people bypass paywalls.

https://www.theverge.com/news/815691/fbi-subpoena-archive-is...

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by Melatonic »

theletterf wrote: post #67
John7878781 wrote: post #63

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in those situations, especially if the business is unresponsive, i just keep charging back until they stop. if i can subscribe easily, i should be able to cancel just as easily :)

Well, you can't if you paid using a debit card, like I did. Silly me.

You often still can actually. Call your bank

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by RobotToaster »

progval wrote: post #34
LeoPanthera wrote: post #13

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Um. You mean the same site that uses its captcha page to DDOS sites the owner doesn't agree with, and was banned from use on Wikipedia because the owner was modifying the archived pages? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#2026_attack_on_G... I don't think we should be supporting this random guy, no.

> to DDOS sites the owner doesn't agree with to DDOS one website, which is doxxing the owner. Not that it makes it good idea, but it's a little more understandable.

I would add it was also completely ineffective since the site in question was hosted on wordpress.com, which is about as likely to work as ddosing Google.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by aurareturn »

do_it_for_free wrote: post #56

They have some positions posted on their job board. I would do this for free. They should adopt a volunteer workforce like the Redcross Code4Good Volunteer Enterprise Web Services team. Senior Datacenter Network Infrastructure Engineer Full Time San Francisco, CA, US 30+ days ago Requisition ID: XXXX Salary Range: $140,000.00 To $200,000.00 Annually

Pick 2 out of 3 for these kinds of volunteer work:

- Capable

- Reliable

- Free

You going to be on call at 3am to bring services back up doing it for free?

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

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Post by embedding-shape »

theletterf wrote: post #77
Melatonic wrote: post #76

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You often still can actually. Call your bank

Just did. Not possible in Spain.

Which bank? My main bank (I'm also in Spain) is BBVA which is able to do charge backs with my debit cards as well. Was possible with Banc Sabadell I used to have as well, really strange to hear there is a bank that doesn't support that today with debit cards.
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