Reminder to donate to the Internet Archive so they can keep fighting the good fight.
Content scraping is harming the information business in ways that could not have been foreseen.
What an absolute ridiculous thing to say.
“This isn’t letting us shape reality, that’s our entire business model, we are working tirelessly to shape people’s reality so this is definitely a no-go.”
Start self-hosting archive box They cant block everyone
Nobody tell NYT about being able to add another “.” Subsequent to”.com” to bypass their paywall.
I’m probably screwing it up here, but neither of these are working for me
https://www.nytimes.com.2026/02/04/us/politics/supreme-court-california-congressional-map.html
https://www.nytimes…com/2026/02/04/us/politics/supreme-court-california-congressional-map.html
Put the an extra “.” after the “.com” so “.com.”
Ah, https://www.nytimes.com/./2026/02/04/us/politics/supreme-court-california-congressional-map.html won’t work on my usual browser (which just ends up loading NYTs homepage) but it does work in a Chrome incognito window
Thank you!
you’re welcome:
https://www.nytimes.com/./2026/02/04/us/politics/supreme-court-california-congressional-map.htmlI think auto complete or something might have messed with what you intended to post, that link still hits the paywall for me, but using your guidance I was eventually able to figure out that
nytimes.com./2026 etc.
works in a Chrome incognito window. The “.” after “com” and the “/” after that “.” are apparently the critical bits
Awesome, this is the best paywall hack I have ever seen!
Fuck Reddit. That website has been selling our data and using it to train AI… I say fuck 'em
about 1 out of every 5 posts is an advertisement in disguise, and about 15% or more of users are actually bots.
All of this is expected as a consequence of partnership with AI companies and google, and the site is basically walking dead, just a shell of corporate interests, manufactured conversations, algorithmically fed bait posts and so on… but it is a tad creepy how many of the AI bots keep making posts in “explain the joke” subreddits. We are so fucked.
great catch! you can actually see the AI slop when it pops up. REddit is dead, and you should delete your data from that cesspool
I got 12 years of some of the top submissions and comments of all time, I will leave my data there because I want our granddroids to learn the very best from us.
Is the Guardian actually blocking the Internet Archive? Seems to work for me
Meanwhile,
I’m certain they’ve wanted to do this for a long time, and AI is a convenient way to justify it, rather than admitting they don’t want humans using it to circumvent the paywall. It does solidify for me personally that the LA Times is the paper of record for the United States going forward, rather than the New York Times.
I just got a gift subscription to the NYTimes, for the first time since I quit in 2018, and it’s really gone downhill. I am learning about more big scoops from the guardian from lemmy posts than I see in their paper. I think Israel’s final solution for gaza here broke their brain, they had an identity crisis and sided with Israel and fascism over all the fourth estate democracy mumbo jumbo.
They haven’t broken a single big story that I recall in the past year. Not a single one, even the wall street journal published epstein’s birthday letter from the president. The NYTimes gave up, they are no longer the paper of record, whatever problems before they covered events more thoroughly and had courage to break big stories, and now they don’t.
The LA Times also blocks the Internet Archive unfortunately. I’d recommend PBS NPR ProPublica or some other nonprofit organization for your US paper of record.
Ugh. Thanks for the heads’ up — I’ve definitely posted archive links without noticing they’re blocked before. PBS and NPR have really gone downhill with the budget cuts. ProPublica is great, but their coverage is pretty narrow, so there’s a lot of stories they don’t cover at all. It’s getting harder and harder to find a quality source.
Unfortunately, I think most quality sources with broad coverage aren’t free. Even the paid sources almost always have a corporate bias. Of those the financial times probably does the least to editorialize. Beyond that I think you just have to find independent journalists or outlets with a narrower investigative focus that you can trust.
The South African billionaire paper that wouldn’t endorse Harris? Well, our options all suck, I guess.
Really, they think Internet Archive is the problem?
Yah it’s a problem for their agenda of manufacturing culture, social discourse and consent for hundreds of millions of people.
They think AI companies are using it as a “backdoor” to scrape their content. Which is patently ridiculous, but that won’t stop them.
They think they want their revenue streams
Wait until they find out that AI is scraping their web sites.
All of these companies only benefit from AI being employed to manufacture consent, alter reality and shape people’s social trends and habits. This is why they don’t want their data archived, they want to be able to use mobs of AI agents disguised as people to shape narrative and decide what people think is true.
It’s already in massive progress across Reddit because it’s so easy to disperse undercover AI instances and create conversations to influence people.
Well, Reddit’s got a contract for AI companies to scrape their content, so pig boy Spez is getting paid, he don’t give a fuck
I’m sure they don’t care, or are all about it.
I wander what happened to Archive in 2024 when it was “hacked” and some pages “disappeared”…
Gotta control the press before you can rewrite history.
That’s very 1984 of them
Buuuut they all say that we need to donate to save free speech! It can’t be a lie right?
By “donate” you mean “buy a subscription”?
that’s fuken lame.
Should be fairly easy to defeat, no?
