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Can someone explain to me how these archive dot ph links magically skirt around all these paywalls?
They have an FAQ and a blog where they go into a fair bit of technical detail, but basically they do cookie isolation and support only some javascript, and for hard blocks they get stuff from AMP.
https://blog.archive.today/post/675805841411178496/how-does-archive-bypass-hard-paywalls-for
https://blog.archive.today/post/678436941726990336/there-are-at-least-two-use-cases-for-your-service
There are actually plugins for browsers that can do similar stuff. Both github and gitlab have been going after the repos though. There is an active repo here https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
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