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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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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.

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

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

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.

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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