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A_Venom_Roll | 3 months ago

Archive.is doesn't work on all sites to bypass the paywall. Media companies that are truly concerned about this should modify their paywall configuration.

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Plasmoid2000ad|3 months ago

I've seen some theories or maybe more like guesses as to how the paywall bypass works - I don't think anyone (or at least no one posting places like here) seems to know.

One I saw suggested they've a set of subscriptions to the paywalled sites and some minimal custom work to hide the signed in account used - which seems plausible. That makes the defense most likely used to catch the account used and ban them - which would be a right pain.

codedokode|3 months ago

They probably just set user agent (and reverse DNS name) to Google or some other company that can bypass the firewall.

nervysnail|3 months ago

For example, similar to mondediplo.com