Getting past paywalls
Procopius I have BypassPaywallsClean installed on my Firefox, and I haven’t seen those announcements about ad blockers for a couple of weeks (sorry, I didn’t make a note when I stopped seeing them). I don’t see any ads, either.
kramshawThe issue I had with archive.ph captcha loops was resolved by adding it as an exception to my dns-over-https setting in firefox. More details about the problem are here but its a little technical. u/Al-Terego wrote:
archive.today (and its aliases: .is .fo .il .md .ph .vn) actively sabotages DNS queries coming from Cloudflare (1.1.1.1, etc.), Quad9 (9.9.9.9, etc.), and possibly others (I didn’t check but there were reports that Google’s 8.8.8.8 is affected as well). The inconsistent results can be due to DNS cashing.
Obviously, switching to your ISPs DNS server or to a third party one that isn’t affected will fix the issue, but people have legitimate reasons for using those DNS servers and since archive.today is the only site that refuses to play the most plausible explanation is asshattery, and a better approach would be give them the finger and advocate the use of archive.org instead.
That said, if you feel that pragmatism trumps ideology, but still want to have your cake and eat it too, here’s how I solved it locally. Description is for Windows 10, Firefox, and a router running FreshTomato, but can be adapted to other settings and/or simplified as needed.
I guess by adding archive.ph as an exception, I’m now using my local ISP for dns lookups for this site, which I don’t feel amazing about, but is probably meh.
posted by dave @ 9:00 AM
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never had a problem either with archive.ph – but youtube has become a problem about ad-blockers
BTW – if you hit a paywall here are a few tools that may help you get around it without being a subscriber – yeah, you’ve already tried archive.ph/ –
https://archive.ph/
https://12ft.io/
https://web.archive.org/
https://1ft.io/