I remember awhile back, people started noticing that archived pages of Reddit* had a 'logged in' status and showed the account name Archive was using to scrape the data. Not sure if this is how it works with other sources.
*I think it was Reddit.
I remember awhile back, people started noticing that archived pages of Reddit* had a 'logged in' status and showed the account name Archive was using to scrape the data. Not sure if this is how it works with other sources.
*I think it was Reddit.
That would be quite the oversight, considering reddit didn't require you to be logged in (awhile back). But if you happen to have a source on this, I'd be interested.
Personally, I also suspect that archive.is is simply paying for subscriptions as a last resort, but I specifically wanted to know from OP. If they do, they do remove the "logged in" status. It always appears as "logged out" in the archived version. I wonder how far they go, whether they scrub watermarks and other identifiers.
Found it! But it was GitHub, not Reddit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37528682
The content is likely filled from some other sources like Android/iPhone APIs, not from the pages themselves and then merged with page's design
e.g. https://archive.ph/8ZDI7 a page removed from original website, archive.org has paywall, but archive.is is somehow able to "archive" it paywallless