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Re: Keep Our Servers Running

#101

Post by bulder »

dakolli wrote: post #75
SXX wrote: post #71

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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...

That's great, how does that absolve the archive.today maintainer's bad faith activities, including creating a country-wall?

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

#102

Post by vachina »

Hamuko wrote: post #49
forestingfisher wrote: post #48

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If it works, it works. Also the Internet Archive also excludes many sites for ideological reasons which is the opposite of preservation

Not sure how well it’s “working” considering any of the archived pages might be altered by the site’s administrator to further their causes. There’s a reason why Wikipedia stopped trusting them.

Please provide example of such cases?

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

#103

Post by vachina »

p91paul wrote: post #84
topato wrote: post #41

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Haha all of those are .today aliases. Not sure the hate over him ddosing the guy doxxing him. .today’s paywall circumvention is also why miscellaneous groups have tried to report him to the FBI over planted CSAM material, among other horrible harassment. I think we should all give him a second chance for the huge amount of time, both before and after the stupid and short lived ddos incident, that he has dedicated to…

I think the fact they are known to have changed the content of archived pages is way worse than the DDoS incident, since it makes them untrustworthy even as a source of information. Wikipedia decided to ban all archive.today (and aliases) links because of that

Do you have an example of such cases happening?

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

#104

Post by vachina »

esskay wrote: post #87
qingcharles wrote: post #12

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Absolutely deserves a donation too. How it keeps running is beyond me, especially as he/she/they keep adding more paywall bypasses on the backend.

It doesnt really deserve anything given they used the site to attack people. See the comment above yours.

I’d gladly join his/her botnet. archive.is is the only archive that acts like an archive.

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

#105

Post by Hamuko »

vachina wrote: post #102
Hamuko wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure how well it’s “working” considering any of the archived pages might be altered by the site’s administrator to further their causes. There’s a reason why Wikipedia stopped trusting them.

Please provide example of such cases?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

#106

Post by jan_m_savage »

Cider9986 wrote: post #25
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.

And archive.org removes perfectly legal content from their accessible archives. Nobody's perfect. The guy running archive.today has done a shit ton of good.

My beef with IA is that none of the books as listed for borrowing are borrowable anymore. Why list it then!

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

#107

Post by jrflowers »

theletterf wrote: post #96
w4yai wrote: post #93

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You can go to play store subscriptions and cancel there right ?

Not if Google Pay has been used as the transaction agent. It's not a Google Play subscription.

https://support.google.com/paymentscenter/answer/9003237?hl=...

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

#108

Post by wongarsu »

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

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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.

All that tells us is that the site is probably not run by the FBI. It could still be run by the CIA, Russian intelligence, or some lone morally neutral guy from Prague

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

#109

Post by tossandthrow »

2:1 by who? That is not written.

These types of schemes ring very poorly in my head for charity.

If someone has the ability to give 2$ for every 1$ I give, why are they only giving on contingence?

Just give the money!

Re: Keep Our Servers Running

#110

Post by conformist »

tossandthrow wrote: post #109

2:1 by who? That is not written. These types of schemes ring very poorly in my head for charity. If someone has the ability to give 2$ for every 1$ I give, why are they only giving on contingence? Just give the money!

Value judgment aside: Probably because it works well empirically. If you’re a larger scale donor and you’re interested in maximising impact, you may agree to a matching program type setup to crowd in more donors. Also you feel smart because you crowded in more donors and the donors feel like they got a good deal. So several people feel they can attribute the same counterfactual impact to themselves ;)
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