HACKER Q&A
📣 jiveturkey

Why doesn't archive.is work for me anymore?


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DAE have problems with archive.is (or the alt CC TLDs) links? They have been unusable for me for months. I get stuck doing captchas.

Safari and Chrome, "standard" and incognito windows, all 4 have the same problem. I have multiple ISP to choose from, plus my cell data, all of them fail. The badges on my various blocker exts all show no content blocked.

def not a problem with my "network" or other hosts on my network, as the captcha page claims -- i have a static IP on all my connections (except cell).

but it does work perfectly from mobile safari on the same network.


  👤 ordu Accepted Answer ✓
I believe it has something to do with tracking, or rather with anti-tracking measures. I don't know how it works, but as you say different browsers and even different firefox profiles (with different addons set) could lead to different results. I believe, that the more paranoid I go with anti-tracking the more chance for me to stuck in a capcha loop.

The issue comes not just on archive.is but some other sites as well. Sometimes I get just a statement that my browser is too old or something like that.


👤 Miner49er
Did you switch to Cloudfare's DNS? IIRC archive.is blocks their DNS servers.