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archive.is doesn't use Cloudflare. The captcha is reCAPTCHA.

they literally have used cloudflare since 2015 or earlier, for every minute that service existed. if you tried to open it with tor from then until now, you get:

" One more step Please complete the security check to access "

"Why do I have to complete a CAPTCHA? Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property."

which is cloudflare's classic tor blocking page

The captcha has reCAPTCHA written on it and the Tor Browser does like 15 requests to google.com domains. None of the archive.is|li|ph|today domains use Cloudflare name servers and resolving archive.is from all over the world returns not a single Cloudflare IP.

I'm pretty sure they don't use Cloudflare.

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