You can access pages that are still actively behind any given site’s paywall.
Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Question: how does this site differ in function to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine?
foodandart@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Wayback Machine lets you select snapshots in a calendar without thumbnails, which is better for navigating among a large number of snapshots, while Archive.today shows a chronological dump of thumbnails, which is better for noticing visible changes.
Archive.today is better at getting through paywalls, the Wayback Machine doesn’t really do this.
And while not a functional difference, but imho quite important: The Wayback Machine is ran by a 100+ employee non-profit registered in the USA, which lends it quite a bit of legal and financial stabilitym but also subjects it to official oversight/censorship, while Archive.today is ran by a single mysterious dude who carefully hides his identity and we know nothing about what money the site is financed from. Both financial security and resistance to censorship can be useful attributes to an online archive, but I have more trust in the Wayback Machine being online in 10 or 20 years, than Archive.today.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If I had to guess this guy is something like a Bitcoin millionaire or something. But that’s just based on the vibes of his speech with no concrete basis.
silence7@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
They dont let sites opt-out, and they do a much more seamless job of enabling people to archive paywalled content