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Jesus Christ I just checked the GitHub page (via a Reddit link) on this issue, and they freaking paid your friend! What the hell?! Opera is run by the Chinese Communist Party, but that's fine with you, whereas Brave is run by a bunch of libertarians and they're evil? Holy shit. Look at the last post on this page, is he lying? (replace DOT with .) githubDOTcom/brave/brave-browser/issues/10219

Anonymous

They did not paid many other Chinese, Russian, Indonesian, … and still have (probably the only) cryptocurrency with racial segregation.

The point of Brave userbase is also interesting: as it appeared after the block, their drive-by download program is popular among toxic websites, so the Brave block reduced popularity of the archive in those communities, which is sort of a positive move too.

So a browser that allows its users to retain all the privacy they desire... that's your version of a "scam"? Whereas a browser that openly spies on its users for a massive megacorporation (Chrome) is *not* a scam. Right. Talk about screwy priorities. If I don't want to see any ads on Brave, I don't have to. And I know they aren't spying on me. But because they pissed you off, I have to use a browser with spyware to use your site. Brilliant. Just brilliant. Is Google paying you? Is China? Damn.

Anonymous

They both do not provide enough privacy. Proof? When Facebook bans an account, it is not possible to use the same browser (whether it is Brave or Chrome, even in “incognito mode” and new IP address) to register new accounts for many days. Browsers leak enough information for Facebook to track you.

The problem with Brave was racial rhetoric they use to steal money: some races can receive their cryprocurrency while some other are not eligible.

1 day ago

How do NEW archives of twitter pages & tweets still show the real "GoodTwitter" layout? I thought the plugin stopped working and the GoodTwitter2 userscript isn't as close to the original "GoodTwitter" layout as the archives are (for example: the tweet overlaying the profile page instead of just a white background). Please, the new web 3.0 design of Twitter makes it so much harder to use.

Anonymous

Setting UserAgent to GoogleBot does the trick for most of the Twitter pages.

2 days ago

I imagine you get some disapproval of what you do and your archive. I would like to give you an example of something you could reference just in case you need to counter their criticism or censure. /hLMoL is an archive of a subreddit called "anime_titties". This isn't porn but is world news. There is no porn at this URL. Censorship by word list, would exclude this news discussion and community.

Anonymous

There is no keyword-based censorship

4 days ago

Hi, I have noticed that an increasingly amount of websites with interstitials will not load the page until the box is clicked. I can imagine this is a game of wack-a-mole and a huge headache for your team. An example is /am6I7 . Could you take a peak at this site's implementation of lazy loading and see if solving this one is worth your time? I'm worried their method or used library might be used by other sites.

Anonymous

Fixed.

Yes, there is a big database similar to adblockers’ which require maintenance as websites got changed

6 days ago

Hi, there is a cookies opt-in popup overlay on the site sfchronicle that hides the content underneath. Could you remove overlay for this website please?

Anonymous

Fixed

6 days ago

Can you do something about yandex cache pages leading to 404? Example: DpSGL

Anonymous

They could be open only from the same IP.

If you send a link to yandex cache to somebody, they will get 404 too
:(

UPD: I rearchived it at https://archive.vn/J8tx9 Archiving Yandex Cache can to be solved, by simulating full user interaction with Yandex: entering the URL into the search form and then doing 2 clicks. I’ll try to implement it in few days

1 week ago

hey youve lost a lot of users over your petty actions

Anonymous

What makes you think that fewer users is something bad (when there is no goal to pump the share price) ?

It would allow to cut expenses and to provide captcha-less access to everyone.

did you block the Dissenter browser?

Anonymous

No, Dissenter is very cool, it took the good parts from Brave removing all cryptoscam. But should be a way to detect Dissenter browser not as Brave, there is already a ticket for that https://github.com/gab-ai-inc/defiant-browser/issues/43

Please provide all the details about how Brave allegedly scammed your friend, because it doesn't make sense. They are about as far as being a domain registrar as is possible. If they did, or someone at Brave scammed your friend, please let us know all about it so we can get him made whole.

Anonymous

https://i.imgur.com/aJfPgX0.png

Aryanization as it is - stealing about $1500 (voluntary donations of website users) explaining this with discrediting on a national basis

UPDATE:

Why are you checking for "supported browser"? You have a simple html form. I'm using Brave browser on mobile which is chromium based, but the "unsupported browser" error shows and I can't get to the form. Seems very unnecessary, just render the page anyways.

Anonymous

Using other browsers prevents people from getting scammed by Brave.

Any details on this "nationalistic rhetoric"? According to an official post from June, the block was put in place because the company "isolated a high number of fraudulent referrers in specific countries"--namely, the five countries listed in your previous post. I'm not saying Brave is being an honest, upstanding company here--for example, it has failed to add this list of countries to the Terms of Service, over a month after the original post--but that doesn't sound very "nationalistic" to me.

Anonymous

Isn’t there much difference from “blacks are criminals“ in how particular cases extrapolated to color of skin or even color of passport? Especially when it comes to stealing from them and that motivates to describe the discriminated group as broad as possible.

Please, at least put a note on the unsupported page why Brave is unsupported again, I thought this was resolved

Anonymous

No, it hardly will be resolved.

it seems that Brave is a scam project by their nature (no wonder looking at their cryptocurrency affiliation). After I managed to transfer the domains to account of my friend, they blocked his account and stole all the tokens using nationalist rhetoric as a cover: they said that they do not pay to Russia, China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Ukraine (interesting, it wasn’t a problem before my domains was transferred there. so I feel guilty for destroying my friend’s business).

Blocking a minor browser who blocks half of the world *for profit* seems an adequate counter-sanction. I encourage webmasters (especially from those countries) to block Brave as well to stop spreading that scam.

I couldn't find it in the FAQs, but I'm curious: what's the relationship (if any) between archive-dot-is and archive-dot-org? (not that there has to be :3 ) Thanks!

Anonymous

There is no relationship

2 weeks ago

For weeks now Discord is again not displaying previews for archive links. Is it a problem on your side or did they do something?

Anonymous

I will check, Discord Bot was whitelisted few months ago.

2 weeks ago

what happened to the bookmarklets is is just replaced by the extension now?

Anonymous

Bookmarklet still works. There were few issues which makes the bookmaklet inferior to extensions so I stopped promoting it:

1. People do not understand where is “bookmark bar” and even what is it. The bar is not visible by default in modern browsers.

2. Firefox has blacklist of websites where all the bookmarklets do not work. The list includes “twitter.com” among others, to the bookmarklet did not allow to save tweets if you are using Firefox.

3. Since recently (somewhere between Chromium 80 and 85), `document.URL` on Wayback Machine pages returns url of the original page, having “http://web.archive.org/web/YYYYMMDDhhmmss/” prefix stripped. This breaks bookmarklet too.

2 weeks ago

Do you know why the archive button disappeared from the chrome web store?

Anonymous

No, I do not.

Those buttons are made by other people, not by me, so it would be better to find …an archived copy of the page from chrome webstore with the contact information of the authors and ask them.

2 weeks ago

Hello. I am new to this website. Does this website act like the WayBack machine where pages are automatically saved by the website for users to see? Or does this website need a person to on purposely copy and paste a url into the archive to save its contents?

Anonymous

It needs a person to on purposely copy and paste a url into the archive to save its contents.

At the time Archive.Today was created, The Wayback Machine was not able to save pages on demand, while increasing share of dynamic and realtime content in the Internet (so to say, the transition from “writing“ to “speech“) was destroying the very idea of Hypertext (when every page could link to another and every reader will find there the same content) and it was frustrating. So, our idea was not to crawl and preserve the entire Internet, but merely to freeze the pages before linking to them. And this implies the presence of the person.

Hi. I'm trying to use ArchiveIs in an Alfred workflow. It submits webpages via the archive now python library. The problem is that during testing, I'm getting a lot of 503 from the server. Is there a rate limit? Should I identify as a specific user-agent? What am I missing?

Anonymous

Yes, it is likely rate limiting showing a page with captcha

2 weeks ago

Hi, I am not familiar with programming, I read question 75363302879 (does-archive-is-have-api) but I don't really understand it. I want to ask if this idea I had is feasible: I want to write a program that saves bookmarks, and when adding a url, it will automatically run each url through archiveis as well. Is this allowed, do you limit use of your service? Or do I need to "self-host" whatever technologies that archiveis uses. Thanks.

Anonymous

For self-host try https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox or https://github.com/webrecorder