One can only imagine the sharing and reading histories the operator has accumulated on the people using it. No restrictions on how the operator can use that data
Archive.today is very popular with HN commenters
Archive.today is very popular with HN commenters
This need to make IP-infringement sound ominous by invoking some ill-defined spy plot is a tired cliche.
> easily obscured with a VPN
I think we can expect that commercial VPNs are compromised, at least by intelligence services. Imagine you opened a bar and advertised, 'dissidents come here to drink in privacy'. I'm sure you'd attract others too to an obviously target-rich environment.
Records of every URL submitted and accessed by a given IP address+browser fingerprint^1
1. Archive.today sites use a form of "pixel tracking" to collect IP addresses via popular graphical browsers, the ones that are required to be used to solve CAPTCHAs, that automatically request URLs in HTML tags with the "src" attribute, e.g., "img" tags
2. Archive.today sites serve CAPTCHAs to some users^3 which force them to enable Javascript and share browser information
3. For example, those users not using or appearing to use popular graphical browsers
Perhaps the answer is they don't verify