Here’s the relevant archive.today guidance page on Wikipedia for anyone curious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidanceIf you have a Wikipedia account, you can help replace these links!
Go to the How you can help section, then click on the search links for any of the given domains, and you can go and manually re-archive any links with Archive.org, Ghostarchive, or Megalodon.Crap. Obviously, I’m gonna gotta stop using archive.today, but it’s the only way around paywalls at numerous sites.
Removepaywalls.com (plural) inserts ads, often for shady operations.
Removepaywall.com (singular) usually works, but it’s tricky sharing the links (i.e., “choose option 2” or “choose option 4”).
Byebyepaywall.com has old, dead options.
Wayback Machine bombs out a lot.
And ghostarchive.org is successful so rarely it’s really a last resort.
Anyone know of any others?
Possibly irrelevant, but some browsers have a “reading mode” which, in conjunction with the ol’ Hitting F11 and Then Esc Trick, will produce the whole article before a paywall can finish loading.
F11 plus Esc stops script execution or something like that?
reloads the page & aborts loading the page
Worth looking into, thanks.
The thing that has always annoyed me about archive.is is that using Firefox + VPN seems to result in endless Captcha. But works in Chrome, go figure. I’m very suspicious of sites that somehow only work properly under Chrome.
Ghostarchive is an archive.today revamp, I see no reason to not keep using either though…
I half thought this was archive.org they were blacklisting. Two whole different sites.
Dammit. Everyone’s been using that site to get around paywalls because it works well. Now I have to go find another one that works as well. :|
There are others that don’t DDoS blogs.
Well, yes, I’ll be off looking for them next time I need to use an archival site. I’m bummed to learn this crap about archive.ph.
Is there a reason self hosted paywall bypass tools don’t exist? Is it because these services pay for access?
I think a subscribed user of the news site has to upload the “unlocked” article to the archive website.
Arguably the biggest problem with Wikipedia as it aged is the accumulation of dead links.
Brilliant move.
I used to find dead links annoying until I realized that many dead links are also saved in the wayback machine. This comment isn’t only about Wikipedia.
