They operate in antiphase: annas-archive.st and sci-hub.gl are suspended.
This couple checked all the domain zones money can buy and... ended up using different sets, with zero intersection
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This couple checked all the domain zones money can buy and... ended up using different sets, with zero intersection
But in fact:
1. HN uses a free service that someone else pays for.
2. HN abuses its paywall bypass function, which is not its main function, is not advertised (unlike 12ft).
3. HN creates legal problems for the archive by highlighting and framing the archive as a paywall-circumvention tool first.
4. HN promotes doxing.
Who would be more motivated in reducing traffic here?
entonces, US-based archive.org "bypasses" this paywall as well:
https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.thetimes.com/culture...
It's a rather interesting question for archive.org, if one were to interview them, that is.
Unlike archive.today, they don't appear to have any issues with e.g. child pornography content, despite certainly hosting a hundred times more material.
They have some strong magic which makes the cheap tricks needless.
RT content verboten in Germany, DW content verboten in Russia, not to mention another dozen of hot spots.
"Other websites" are completely inaccessible in certain regions. The Archive has stuff from all of them, so there’s basically no place on Earth where it could work without tricks like the EDNS one.
Save the page now and compare a week later.
Many of us host terabytes of opaque data on platforms like GitHub without ever paying or facing deletion threats.