New York Times Doesn’t Want Its Stories Archived

Re:New York Times Doesn’t Want Its Stories Archived by eduction on Sunday September 17, 2023 @08:46AM (#37544476)

Is there any evidence anyone is using the internet archive to bypass the Times’ soft paywall?

Internet Archive is slow as hell. That would be a miserable way to read the Times. There are various higher performance ways to achieve the same result (eg disabling JavaScript for nytimes.com).

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Re:New York Times Doesn’t Want Its Stories Archived by Etheryte on Sunday September 17, 2023 @08:50AM (#37544509)

Internet Archive links are found in comments on HN all the time, not just for the New York Times, but for nearly any site using a paywall.

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Re:New York Times Doesn’t Want Its Stories Archived by bradyat on Sunday September 17, 2023 @08:58AM (#37544586)

You are confusing the Internet Archive and archive.ph, which are very different things

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Re:New York Times Doesn’t Want Its Stories Archived by eduction on Sunday September 17, 2023 @09:05AM (#37544654)

And archive.is which is the one I see here the most.

Ok now I understand so many of the replies in this thread.

For anyone else reading thei who doesn’t know: Internet Archive is archive.org aka the Wayback Machine. It takes like 10 seconds to load a page but has years old versions of pages.

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Re:New York Times Doesn’t Want Its Stories Archived by mrbombastic on Sunday September 17, 2023 @09:04AM (#37544640)

? No, many people do this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30154781

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Re:New York Times Doesn’t Want Its Stories Archived by mrbombastic on Sunday September 17, 2023 @08:51AM (#37544514)

I for one have done this and there are websites and extensions that do exactly that, take a url and return the archive url to bypass the paywall. As much as I love internet archive i don’t think it is debatable people use it for this purpose.

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