Archive.today
An anonymously operated web page archiving service that allows users to submit arbitrary URLs and save the complete state of those pages. The service is known for operating across multiple domain mirrors and for its ability to capture paywalled content. It has long existed in a legal gray area with regard to copyright and regulatory compliance.
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The relevant Spanish authorities issued an order requiring the blocking of the web archiving service Archive.today and a number of its mirror sites.
Archive.today is a service that provides web page snapshot archiving; users can submit any URL, and the service will crawl and save the complete state of the page at a given moment, including text, styles, and images.
Archive.today is commonly accessed under multiple domain names such as archive.ph and archive.is.
Archive.today is known for its anonymous operation, scraping of paywalled content, and multi-domain mirroring, and has long occupied a gray area of copyright and compliance controversy.
Archive.today circumvents single-point blocking through multiple alternative domain names, so that once one domain is blocked, users can still access it via other mirrors.
Because Archive.today's operators are anonymous and there is no clear contact information, it is particularly passive in receiving and responding to GDPR deletion requests.
IP-layer blocking requires ISPs to directly drop packets destined for specific IP addresses, making it relatively harder to circumvent, but Archive.today can counter IP blocking to some extent by frequently changing its IPs or using CDN distribution.
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Archive.today is a service that provides web page snapshot archiving; users can submit any URL, and the service will crawl and save the complete state of the page at a given moment, including text, styles, and images.
50%UnverifiedArchive.today is commonly accessed under multiple domain names such as archive.ph and archive.is.
50%UnverifiedArchive.today is known for its anonymous operation, scraping of paywalled content, and multi-domain mirroring, and has long occupied a gray area of copyright and compliance controversy.
50%UnverifiedArchive.today circumvents single-point blocking through multiple alternative domain names, so that once one domain is blocked, users can still access it via other mirrors.
50%UnverifiedBecause Archive.today's operators are anonymous and there is no clear contact information, it is particularly passive in receiving and responding to GDPR deletion requests.
50%UnverifiedIP-layer blocking requires ISPs to directly drop packets destined for specific IP addresses, making it relatively harder to circumvent, but Archive.today can counter IP blocking to some extent by frequently changing its IPs or using CDN distribution.
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