They're probably hoping for a reaction like "Oh man, I gotta know the rest, let me pull out my credit card", but my reaction is just "Seriously? I wasn't giving you my money before, and I definitely won't now."

(On closer inspection, you're only "paying" by creating a "free" account with them -- but paywalls look like paywalls no matter what the price is...)

That can put archive.is out of business.

> please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html