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A comment on Ask HN: Who owns archive.is, and why are they trustworthy?.

Re:Ask HN: Who owns archive.is, and why are they trustworthy? by bscphil on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:07PM (#23318335)
> This is made further interesting because of the following:

An additional concern: they've shown signs in the past of being capricious, or at least, easily annoyed by (subjectively) insignificant slights. They continue to block Cloudflare DNS users, last I checked. The "reason" is that Cloudflare doesn't send along the eDNS client subnet, as a way of protecting their users' privacy. [1]

I would argue this means archive.today / is can't be trusted to have the best interests of the community at heart. It's not a public service in the way that archive.org is.

[1] This bad behavior is actually mentioned in their Wikipedia article, along with the additional uncited claim that they throttle users to 20 MB of data per day, upon which they apparently ban your IP address. I haven't verified the latter claim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#Worldwide

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Re:Ask HN: Who owns archive.is, and why are they trustworthy? by Darmody on Thursday May 28, 2020 @09:50AM (#23337200)
I didn't know about the Cloudflare DNS users being blocked. I started using Cloudflare's DNS two days ago, I just checked and it looks like I can't use the site anymore.

I can use it with Tor after more than a dozen different reCaptcha requests.

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