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This is definitely interesting and HN-worthy. If nothing else, archive.today links are posted on tons of HN submissions, so it's topical.

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I agree - it's clear that archive.is / archive.ph / archive.today / who-knows-what-else has been a lubricant in many HN threads, letting people read things they otherwise couldn't, and that increases the interest of the topic.

I suppose I should add that we prefer archive.org links when they're available, but often they aren't.

Edit: I suppose I should also re-add that we have no knowledge of or opinion about what's going on in the dispute at hand.

> we prefer archive.org links when they're available

Interesting. May we know why?

Perhaps because the admins of archive.org don't go around DDoSing random blogs I'd reckon.

Instead they execute source page JS and allow it to doctor the archive copy.

Archive.org is run by a registered nonprofit instead of what’s likely a sole maintainer, who while I personally appreciate, does seem to go a little unhinged sometimes (like the dispute with Cloudflare DNS).

This also makes it susceptible to government pressure. It's easy to get a page taken down from archive.org and it won't archive anything paywalled.

Government pressure is the least of the problem. Anyone gaining control of a domain can delete all archives of it.

Because the government pressures them to obey this

I assume that answer is not official, since there's nothing more unhinged than archive.org facilitating the page's originator to make alterations after the snapshot.

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