How does archive.today work? How do they a paywall free version of web pages?
by jsheard on 1/24/2025, 8:05:57 PM
I would guess they pretend to be a search engine crawler, which are usually allowed to see paywalled pages. There are ways to reliably detect fake crawlers but few paywalled sites seem to bother doing that.
I would guess they pretend to be a search engine crawler, which are usually allowed to see paywalled pages. There are ways to reliably detect fake crawlers but few paywalled sites seem to bother doing that.