It works better than sites like 12ft.io ever did for bypassing paywalled articles. 80% of the time the article I want to read is on a site I don’t want to give traffic to, but reading it via archive.ph (or archive.is) doesn’t give them that traffic. Sometimes articles get changed or taken down on the original site, and so you can’t find them when trying to reread or reference them, but that will never happen when they’re archived. Whenever someone on a lemmy instance posts an article and includes the archive link, they will always get my upvote, but especially when linking to a paywalled article. It should just be widely considered good internet etiquette to use and share archived links.
The only bad thing is the goddamn captcha shit they now require when you’re archiving a site. It really killed it for me. I wish there were more sites that worked just as well and did the same thing. There really should be and it’s a damn shame that there’s not.
Archive.ph is my best friend for those.
Has usually already been saved, and just pulls it up for me. When it doesn’t, I’m helping!
Not even worth it, fuck it if they wanna waste my time I’ma waste my time elsewhere
It works better than sites like 12ft.io ever did for bypassing paywalled articles. 80% of the time the article I want to read is on a site I don’t want to give traffic to, but reading it via archive.ph (or archive.is) doesn’t give them that traffic. Sometimes articles get changed or taken down on the original site, and so you can’t find them when trying to reread or reference them, but that will never happen when they’re archived. Whenever someone on a lemmy instance posts an article and includes the archive link, they will always get my upvote, but especially when linking to a paywalled article. It should just be widely considered good internet etiquette to use and share archived links.
The only bad thing is the goddamn captcha shit they now require when you’re archiving a site. It really killed it for me. I wish there were more sites that worked just as well and did the same thing. There really should be and it’s a damn shame that there’s not.