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They could just rebrand as an “AI” company, nobody seems to care about them consuming copyrighted data at scale.
Also the White House uses archive.is lmao (third bullet point, second link): https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/the-economy-is-back-on-track-under-president-trump/
Sounds like the owner uses some pretty sketchy means to keep the site running. Apparently a botnet is used for the crawler. Whatever malware is used for that botnet could also be the source of login credentials for these news websites as well. Or perhaps just basic credential stuffing.
Hopefully it doesn’t go offline
it’s honestly become one of the most important sites out there, it’d cost like hundreds of dollars a month in subscriptions to read all the news otherwise
Especially more honest news.
exactly
