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Re:Tell HN: Exercise caution with links to archive sites by perihelions on Monday March 14, 2022 @06:11AM (#30670526)
Archive.is mirrors have been linked north of 15,000 times on HN over 9 years [0]. (Archive.is is the more popular URL for the same [1] service). I'm skeptical that actually-malicious behavior would have gone unnoticed for so long, on this site of all places.

Unless your position is all intrusive analytics scripts are "malware" -- in which case I philosophically agree, but it's futile.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=archive.is&type=comment (note Algolia's exact # is nondeterministic and changes on refresh)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

(Full disclosure: I've linked many of these myself).

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Re:Tell HN: Exercise caution with links to archive sites by hericium on Monday March 14, 2022 @06:22AM (#30670608)
Last time I checked, archive.is required JS and was showing a page imitating Cloudflare's but using reCaptcha. I actually got downvoted after pointing out that archive.is requires JS when linked article can be read with no JS.
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