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\" \\ |tr -d '\\134' \\ |sed '1s/^//' > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm #links 1.htm", "context": "", "use_case": "reading paywalled articles", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets"}]}, {"label": "Regular use", "summary": "Some commenters say they use it regularly and are fond of it.", "quotes": [{"id": 782349264, "item_id": 48896829, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896829", "by": "eth0up", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love archive.today and all their subdomains. I use it regularly", "excerpt": "See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894441 The NextDNS (and others) blocking of archive.today goes back far beyond 2026 and this specific DDOS event. Perhaps that contributed to the hostility behind it, I don't know. But citing that event for other examples does not apply well. Please do not misinterpret this as an excuse or pardon of anything. I love archive.today and all their subdomains. I use it regularly ", "context": "", "use_case": "web archiving", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News"}, {"id": 795523440, "item_id": 49720215, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720215", "by": "normie3000", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use them.", "excerpt": "> Why folks continue to use them confuses me. I use them. I haven't ever heard mention that the content is edited. Do you have a source?", "context": "", "use_case": "web page archiving", "switched_from": "", "story": "An update on Wayback Machine access"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Reliability", "summary": "One commenter reports frequent reliability problems, including its CAPTCHA going down after hitting Google's usage limit.", "quotes": [{"id": 793377600, "item_id": 49586100, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586100", "by": "strenholme", "date": "2026-09-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "now that archive.today is having a lot of reliability problems", "excerpt": "The only place where I use AI for writing is to summarize press articles; this allows me to legally have a mirror of a press article I am commenting about in my blog (whenever I use AI, I make a disclaimer that the prose is AI-generated; EDIT: I also link to the original article, and an archived copy if available). Now that archive.org doesn\u2019t mirror many press articles, and now that archive.today is having a lot of ", "context": "blogger", "use_case": "archiving articles", "switched_from": "", "story": "Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)"}]}, {"label": "Tor CAPTCHA", "summary": "Google reCAPTCHA reportedly rejects valid solutions submitted via Tor.", "quotes": [{"id": 767689649, "item_id": 47980603, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980603", "by": "sanskritical", "date": "2026-05-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Archive.is uses Google's Recaptcha, which for some reason rejects valid solutions submitted via Tor.", "excerpt": "https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/ Works for me. I use only Tor so it is actually far more accessible. Archive.is uses Google's Recaptcha, which for some reason rejects valid solutions submitted via Tor.", "context": "uses only Tor", "use_case": "archiving pages", "switched_from": "", "story": "I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different"}]}, {"label": "DNS blocking", "summary": "It is blocked by NextDNS and similar services, causing access problems for years.", "quotes": [{"id": 782349264, "item_id": 48896829, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896829", "by": "eth0up", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love archive.today and all their subdomains. I use it regularly", "excerpt": "See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894441 The NextDNS (and others) blocking of archive.today goes back far beyond 2026 and this specific DDOS event. Perhaps that contributed to the hostility behind it, I don't know. But citing that event for other examples does not apply well. Please do not misinterpret this as an excuse or pardon of anything. I love archive.today and all their subdomains. I use it regularly ", "context": "", "use_case": "web archiving", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News"}]}, {"label": "DDoS controversy", "summary": "One regular user says they were seriously disappointed to learn of a DDoS event tied to the site.", "quotes": [{"id": 782349264, "item_id": 48896829, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896829", "by": "eth0up", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love archive.today and all their subdomains. I use it regularly", "excerpt": "See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894441 The NextDNS (and others) blocking of archive.today goes back far beyond 2026 and this specific DDOS event. Perhaps that contributed to the hostility behind it, I don't know. But citing that event for other examples does not apply well. Please do not misinterpret this as an excuse or pardon of anything. I love archive.today and all their subdomains. I use it regularly ", "context": "", "use_case": "web archiving", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News"}]}], "who": [], "tags": ["for paywalled news", "for linking archived copies"], "use_cases": ["bypassing paywalls", "web page archiving", "archiving articles", "reading paywalled links", "web archiving", "reading paywalled articles"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716176", "title": "An update on Wayback Machine access", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585644", "title": "Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154", "title": "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888331", "title": "The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864887", "title": "Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462823", "title": "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"warn": 1}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 795523440, "item_id": 49720215, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720215", "by": "normie3000", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use them.", "excerpt": "> Why folks continue to use them confuses me. I use them. I haven't ever heard mention that the content is edited. Do you have a source?", "context": "", "use_case": "web page archiving", "switched_from": "", "story": "An update on Wayback Machine access"}, {"id": 793377600, "item_id": 49586100, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586100", "by": "strenholme", "date": "2026-09-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "now that archive.today is having a lot of reliability problems", "excerpt": "The only place where I use AI for writing is to summarize press articles; this allows me to legally have a mirror of a press article I am commenting about in my blog (whenever I use AI, I make a disclaimer that the prose is AI-generated; EDIT: I also link to the original article, and an archived copy if available). Now that archive.org doesn\u2019t mirror many press articles, and now that archive.today is having a lot of ", "context": "blogger", "use_case": "archiving articles", "switched_from": "", "story": "Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)"}, {"id": 790236672, "item_id": 49389792, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389792", "by": "kenanfyi", "date": "2026-08-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use the Bangs feature to open paywalled links with archive.is with !a.", "excerpt": "I use the Bangs feature to open paywalled links with archive.is with !a. When I write !a before the link in the address bar, it redirects to the archive for that particular page. Most of the time it is already in archive.is. Bang settings: URL Template: https://archive.is/newest/%s Bang shortcut: whatever letter you want. I'm sure a basic browser extension can be developed for that specific action too, but it does no", "context": "", "use_case": "reading paywalled links", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"}, {"id": 782349264, "item_id": 48896829, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896829", "by": "eth0up", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love archive.today and all their subdomains. I use it regularly", "excerpt": "See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894441 The NextDNS (and others) blocking of archive.today goes back far beyond 2026 and this specific DDOS event. Perhaps that contributed to the hostility behind it, I don't know. But citing that event for other examples does not apply well. Please do not misinterpret this as an excuse or pardon of anything. I love archive.today and all their subdomains. I use it regularly ", "context": "", "use_case": "web archiving", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News"}, {"id": 781892016, "item_id": 48868251, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868251", "by": "1vuio0pswjnm7", "date": "2026-07-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Alternative to \"gift link\", archive.is\n\nNo tracking, no Javascript", "excerpt": "Alternative to \"gift link\", archive.is No tracking, no Javascript curl http://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA27FA35 \\ |grep -o \".*
\" \\ |tr -d '\\134' \\ |sed '1s/^//' > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm #links 1.htm", "context": "", "use_case": "reading paywalled articles", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets"}, {"id": 775420800, "item_id": 48463800, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463800", "by": "garciasn", "date": "2026-06-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The only real option is archive.is/ph", "excerpt": "From those that are often posted here, most appear to have an upper limit on the number of clicks before it's disabled. On a site with a community as large as HN, by the time I get around to it (well within the supposed 7d window), it's already disabled. The only real option is archive.is/ph and/or use a heavily updated version of the bypass-paywalls extension that is now dead due to litigious behavior (I used Claude", "context": "", "use_case": "bypassing paywalls", "switched_from": "", "story": "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack"}, {"id": 767689649, "item_id": 47980603, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980603", "by": "sanskritical", "date": "2026-05-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Archive.is uses Google's Recaptcha, which for some reason rejects valid solutions submitted via Tor.", "excerpt": "https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/ Works for me. I use only Tor so it is actually far more accessible. Archive.is uses Google's Recaptcha, which for some reason rejects valid solutions submitted via Tor.", "context": "uses only Tor", "use_case": "archiving pages", "switched_from": "", "story": "I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different"}, {"id": 742601232, "item_id": 46412577, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46412577", "by": "colesantiago", "date": "2025-12-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "usually I get free content from archive.is on news articles", "excerpt": "I don\u2019t like paywalls so usually I get free content from archive.is on news articles. I use sponsorblock on videos that contain ads on them. What is the alternative here to ads that is sustainable?", "context": "", "use_case": "bypassing paywalls", "switched_from": "", "story": "Just No"}]}