Use Firefox/LibreWolf + uBlock Origin with the annoyances filters enabled and
https://filterlists.com/lists/bypass-paywalls-clean-filter
[https://filterlists.com/lists/bypass-paywalls-clean-filter] to avoid
encountering many paywalls.
original, saw this somewhere else too. ddos stuff. this one blames ru for archive.today mess. sounds about right. didn’ intend it to look like an announcement here. it kind of did. post based on ars story, apparently. who knows
How does the paywall circumvention of archive.today works?
It identifies itself as a google (or other) crawler, which sites often allow and give the full content to, for better SEO.
I guess that they genuinely owned subscriptions for popular paywalled sites.