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archive.is is a charity no? Or at least they take donations, it seems the legal entity behind it is nebulous, but they don't have ads and have no paid product or offering.


They sure as shit do have ads. Have you ever accidentally followed a link using a browser profile that has no ad blocking enabled?

I only rarely browse without some form of content blocking (usually privacy-focused... that takes care of enough ads for me, most of the time). I keep a browser profile that's got no customizations at all, though, for verifying that bugs I see/want to report are not related to one of my extensions.

Every once in a while, I'll accidentally open a link to a news site (or to an archive of such a site) in that vanilla profile. I'm shocked at how many ads you see if you don't take some counter measures.

I just confirmed in that profile: archive.is definitely puts ads around the sites they've archived.


I stand corrected, maybe it's because I have ad-blocks that I never noticed.

And arguably I used to think it was the Internet Archive.

It does make this case seem problematic now that I know the details.




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