Tackling the problems that really matter. Good job, FBI.
Fucking clowns.
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2025
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Well don't you know?
All they value is money.
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...
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?".
Because the archive site points out their deceptions, lies and cruelty
Because the victims of the rape of children in the Epstein case don't have the money. The perpetrators do.
They probably are. They're trying to make sure it hasn't leaked onto archive.is.
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The FBI is probably going nuts here because someone inadvertently archived the Epstein files and everyone at HQ is panicking. They need to purge it for the Internet before someone discovers that archived content, and so they’re using CP as an excuse.
In fairness, if they are hosting those files, there is a very good chance there is cp
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You can just go fuck a duck. Archive is super useful. Leave it alone.
"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.
Blockchain?
It would help! It would establish that an archive was made no later than the date it was recorded on a blockchain (assuming the archiver isn’t also the one the made the original content in which case they can upload it after making the “archive”). You would still need to prove the trustworthiness of the archived data and at the moment the only thing we have for that is just trusting the archiver.
You could do something like have multiple archivers archive the same site in s stripped down for like plain text (so that differences caused by time or day, ads, etc don’t change the hash) and that way you can say that X amount of archivers agree that the site looked like that at that time.
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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)
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The archive runs Apache Hadoop and Apache Accumulo. All data is stored on HDFS, textual content is duplicated 3 times among servers in 2 datacenters and images are duplicated 2 times. Both datacenters are in Europe, with OVH hosting at least one of them.
To avoid detection, archive.today runs via a botnet that cycles through countless IP addresses, making it quite difficult for grumpy webmasters to stop their sites getting scraped. Access to paywalled sites is through logins secured via unclear means, which need to be replenished constantly: here’s the creator asking for Instagram credentials. Finally, the serving of the website is also subject to a perpetual game of cat and mouse: “I can only predict that there will be approximately one trouble with domains per year and each fifth trouble will result in domain loss.” As of today, archive.today still works, but users are redirected to archive.md.
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Friends of tech Bros Incorporated.
Regulatory capture is complete in the states.
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
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
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So you feel sorry for the fact they are legacy industry that refuses to adapt?
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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?
No for real, why? Why are they persuing this?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5326573/internet-archive-wayback-machine-trump
Different archive, same principle.
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It's hard to rewrite the past if someone's keeping receipts
Shouldn't they focus on the no. 1 law breaker and court ignorer in the country?
That would explain why adguard’s public DNS started blocking it (labeled vaguely as “legal request”).
Damn, I was wondering why it was down. I hope it goes back up soon, its such a useful tool.
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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
You can access pages that are still actively behind any given site's paywall.
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