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Alternative to archive.is

   x="\"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.6533.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 Lamarr\""
   y=https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/11/26/investors-expect-ai-use-to-soar-thats-not-happening
   busybox wget -U "$x" -O 1.htm $y
   firefox ./1.htm

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> busybox wget -U $x -O 1.htm $y

There's no way that could work. $x expands to multiple arguments.

Replace double quotes with single quotes then

Thanks, I didn't know this trick! Perhaps soon we'll need to keep lists of per-site white-listed user agents...

"Perhaps soon we'll need to keep lists of per-site white-listed user agents..."

Been doing this for many years now. It's a short list, small enough to be contained in the local fwd proxy config

   # economist.com
   http-request set-header user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.6533.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 Lamarr" if { hdr(host) -m end economist.com }

I don't use curl, wget, browser extensions/add-ons, etc. except in HN examples. I don't have to worry about command line arguments ilke "-A" or "-U". Proxy controls HTTP headers

Nice troll. I like how it yielded 403 in the end.

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