Comment by PaulHoule

They are also running the Javascript at archive time: "Saved pages will have no active elements and no scripts, so they keep you safe as they cannot have any popups or malware!"

As to how they (1) survive, and (2) don't face technical countermeasures I'll say:

(A) Rumor has it they're based in Russia

(B) Just to do their job (getting the facts straight) any journalist from any publication has to be be able to read every article from every publication. The secret broke that you could log into the WSJ and many other publications with "media/media" [1]. Given the 5,000+ newspapers in the US, any kind of mutual pact to give each other access is a difficult problem. (e.g. Is the New York Times going to step down from it's throne to buy access to a huge number of no-status small town papers, even if any of them could be the authoritative source for a huge story?)

If there wasn't archive.today they'd have to make one.

[1] https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/free-login-wall-street-jo...