Re:Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @03:10AM
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HN commenters like to use archive.is but I always wonder if people are aware that archive.is is (a) blocked in some countries^1 and (b) may block access to itself in a country if it feels threatened.^2
There is also the issue of EDNS subnet.^3 archive.is tries to require it; it wants to know what location a request is coming from. In addition to EDNS, archive.is inserts the IP address and geolocation of the incoming request into the HTML of the returned page as a tracking pixel.^4
Thus archive.is does some things archive.org does not do besides just ignoring robots.txt
One of the things archive.org does that archive.is does not do is that archive.org inserts an HTTP response header intended to disable Chrome FLoC.^5 I add this header for all sites in a local proxy; however I do not see many sites adding it as a courtesy. Thanks archive.org for doing that.
There is also the issue of EDNS subnet.^3 archive.is tries to require it; it wants to know what location a request is coming from. In addition to EDNS, archive.is inserts the IP address and geolocation of the incoming request into the HTML of the returned page as a tracking pixel.^4
Thus archive.is does some things archive.org does not do besides just ignoring robots.txt
One of the things archive.org does that archive.is does not do is that archive.org inserts an HTTP response header intended to disable Chrome FLoC.^5 I add this header for all sites in a local proxy; however I do not see many sites adding it as a courtesy. Thanks archive.org for doing that.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.is
2. https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3e29vm/arch...
3. https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/135222/why-does-...
4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27498902
5. permissions-policy: interest-cohort=()