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?

[image] any1: e 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 mob…

[image] any1: I have never had this issue using a European Mullvad exit. I can’t connect to Archive.org with a EU Mullvad exit. They give me an error.

[image] Regime6045: 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.

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…

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 fo…

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