I use a VPN 24/7 and every time I try to open an archived link I am unable to open it unless I am connected to a US IP. I cannot visit their website from other country IPs.
Why is that the case?
Does the Internet archive block non-US IPs ? Or non US VPN IPs?
I have never had this issue using a European Mullvad exit. What VPN do you use?
I am currently on a family member’s Nord account. They rarely use it, so I didn’t want to waste it. I know Nord is not recommended by the privacy community. This is just a temporary situation. I only use it on desktop. On mobile, I am on Proton.
I often add articles to read later on Raindrop. If I add an archived link from a non US IP, I am not able to read it there. But if I add it from a US IP, open the article in Raindrop, then switch back to my preferred non-US IP, I am able to read the article.
I can’t connect to Archive.org with a EU Mullvad exit. They give me an error.
Thanks for sharing. I was wondering if other people were having the same issue.
I haven’t been denied access via those servers on Mullvad, but I do encounter 429s pretty often.
Living in EU, never had any issues with Archive.org with or without VPN.
No problems with IVPN.
Been working very intermittently with Proton lately.
It’s a sh t archive anyway that complies with most (all?) takedown requests. Better use Archive Today that complies far less (if at all).
Sorry, I’m a little confused by your comment. Who complies to most takedowns? Proton or the Internet Archive.
It’s interesting that you commented on this thread after a couple of months, because recently, the Internet Archive has been working for me with non-US IPs. I didn’t change my VPN either. I doubt it’s a domain thing, but I have been using the archive.fo domain.
They are saying that Internet Archive is working for them on Proton VPN exit IPs. And that Internet Archive follows US law, while Archive.today follows russian law.
They are quite different. IA crawls the entire web, AT crawls at user direction and has really good paywall bypasses.
I am looking forward to new archive solutions it’s an insanely important service these guys provide to the internet, so it’s pretty scary it’s so centralized.
Thanks for explaining. Yeah, they provide a great service. They keep the powerful accountable and prevent them from erasing history.
Important to note that just because Archive Today doesn’t comply with takedown requests, that shouldn’t automatically elevate them to being better than anyone else.
Ask Wikipedia, where they decided to remove all links using them because of evidence that they were tampering with certain page saves and including malicious script behavior. I would be inclined to agree with Expert4870’s reply in that we need more independent page archiving projects though, since there is too much centralization that makes it too easy to censor stuff right now.