[–] CIA_KILLED_JFK 2 points 10 points 12 points (+12|-2) ago
Why is every single fucking link an archive.is link? Stop wasting the bandwidth of a noble internet cause because you don't want to give traffic to X...
[–] frankenmine 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
I hope you realize that's the entire point of archive.is.
[–] Thisismyvoatusername 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I don't think that is accurate. The entire point of that site is not to deny the originating sites from having traffic. It can simply be used that way while fulfilling its primary purpose of keeping an unchanging record of what has been on other sites. From the home page of archive.is:
archive.is is your personal Wayback Machine!
It takes a 'snapshot' of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears.
This can be useful if you want to take a 'snapshot' a page which could change soon: price list, job offer, real estate listing, drunk blog post, ...
It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracy.
It also shortens URLs much like tinyurl, goo.gl and bit.ly do.
It can save pages from Web 2.0 sites: http://archive.is/2013.05.01/http://nickqizhu.github.io/dc.js/ http://archive.is/2014.06.26/https://www.google.com/maps/…
Saved pages will have no active elements and no scripts, so they keep you safe as they cannot have any popups or malware!
[–] [deleted] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
[–] Thisismyvoatusername 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
That's really cool. But there is no way in hell I am intentionally accessing a server in China and downloading anything from it. They got enough of my information from the OPM, I'm not going to intentionally give them more.
[–] frankenmine ago
TechCrunch is a corrupt site.
Thanks for archiving.