The completeness of the Archive is a fruit of it playing by few to no rules: it stores all of the content in a page, even dynamically loaded elements, serves pages fast, and pays no mind to the "robots.txt" file that websites use to curtail automated crawlers. Unlike the Wayback Machine, it seemingly doesn't take requests for deletion of archived content, save for those of legal substance.
The Archive also allegedly uses a botnet to keep evading attempts at blocking its crawler, and reportedly maintains a host of accounts at login- and even paywall-blocked websites to archive the contents therein, arguably operating in a gray area regarding a portion of its content. This might have been what triggered an investigation from the authorities, as major news websites don't take kindly to tools that bypass paywalls.
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Joomsy Yet another crawler for the WAF. I don't care who it is, if it disregards the robots file, and doesn't offer a way to opt-out of crawling, it gets blocked. Internet Archive actually works on an opt-in model. They don't crawl and archive indiscriminately. You have to submit your site to be archived, and the Archive Today operator really just seems like a klepto. Reply
usertests Joomsy said: Yet another crawler for the WAF. I don't care who it is, if it disregards the robots file, and doesn't offer a way to opt-out of crawling, it gets blocked. Internet Archive actually works on an opt-in model. They don't crawl and archive indiscriminately. You have to submit your site to be archived, and the Archive Today operator really just seems like a klepto. Out of an abundance of curiosity, what website(s) are you running? Reply
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