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Now that 12ft.io is down, are there any good alternatives to archive.ph for viewing paywalled articles?

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[–] junusdenised420@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Same! It works with most popular sites.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago

I would never install this into Firefox but I do want to point out that a lot of pirate stuff is hosted in Russia these days because they can ignore takedown requests

[–] 10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Genuine question, are Russian sites any worse or better than anywhere else these days?

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

You make a fair point; maybe I’ve become too cynical, but probably not. Seems like everything everywhere is enshittified all at once lately.

[–] 10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I think your right that yes it does seem like a coordinated crack down at the moment. Almost like round 2.

[–] 10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

My experience with Russian sourced software is to treat it as low trust, like I do everywhere else, until proved otherwise. An example is gitflic.ru. I'm cautious about it but can see a number of developers moved there after being thrown of MS's Github so a very legitimate reason to use it. Is potential Russian surveillance any worse than the government of the country in which you live? Probably not.

[–] dynamoMaus@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't archive.ph also russian?

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

*.ph should at the very least be Philippines, but to be completely honest I do not know.

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You do know those don't really mean anything unless used by a government agency, right?

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 1 points 1 day ago
[–] AshKaashh@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

well if its any medium article you can try freedium.cfd

[–] bedouin 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What's wrong with archive.ph ?

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 6 points 1 day ago

Nothing is wrong with archive.ph , but it's good to have a backup in case it goes down, or if it starts failing for some reason.

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Sometimes I get a captcha of death there.