Comment by packetslave
15 hours ago
This is absolutely something that's happening. There are even paid scraper API's that offer "Wayback Machine fallback" as a feature.
15 hours ago
This is absolutely something that's happening. There are even paid scraper API's that offer "Wayback Machine fallback" as a feature.
It's an open secret that you can often circumvent paywalls by searching Wayback.
One site was doing that which archive in their name but wasn't apart of archive.org
archive.is or archive.today?
Why being shy in the era of stealing AI?
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Only some of them, it is not universal.
"often"
Every single paid article linked on HN has the way back machine link as the very first comment.
The links are usually to Archive.today (aka archive.ph and a bunch of other domains), not Wayback Machine (which is run by Internet Archive).
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