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Can you explain what you mean?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

no, I meant the pixel.archive.is stuff

They still refuse to serve users with Cloudflare DNS.

What do you mean by tracking?

check out the *.pixel.archive.is lookups

Fascinating, they embed a tracking pixel of: http://onion.[SOME_NUMERIC_ID].pixel.archive.today/pixel.gif for Tor endpoint (archivecaslytosk.onion) connections but https:// [YOUR_IP].[COUNTRY_CODE].[SHORT_ALPHANUMERIC_ID].[SOME_NUMERIC_ID].pixel.archive.is/pixel.gif for regular (archive.is/archive.fo/archive.today/etc) connections.

So at least this lets archive.is correlate your IP with your DNS server (which must pass EDNS Client Subnet to get any meaningful response, this is the reason why Cloudflare DNS is not that great for accessing archive.is; more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317).

There is something weird going on - both demanding the EDNS detail and then the extra tracking. I'm happy to avoid them using cloudflare's privacy stuff.