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>>gyrova+(OP)
… seems like we the HN community should find a new site to mirror with.

>>deatha+J06
There isn't one. As far as I know, no one really knows for sure how they bypass all these paywalls. (Most credible theory I heard: They actually just pay for the subscriptions.)

>>mr_mit+Zk6
Most paywalls just allow search engines to read their content just fine. Because they do want discoverability, they want their cake and eat it.

There's a few publications that don't even do that though and archive.is is very good at bypassing them so I do imagine they use logins for those, but for the masses of sites it's not currently necessary.

>>wolvol+QU6
You can't impersonate Google. Sites check the source IP and they don't overlap with Google Cloud.

>>direwo+u27
You can for sites that can't afford the cost of keeping up-to-date with the Google IP list without which they can lose timely indexing. That is many.

>>chrisj+F77
What do you mean by “afford the cost”? The list is free of charge (https://support.google.com/a/answer/10026322?hl=en-GB) and maintenance can be fully automated.

>>otterl+uq7
I mean cost of server setup and execution.

>>chrisj+nA7
The server that is providing the content exists already. That's a sunk cost.

>>otterl+Rk8
"setup and execution".

>>chrisj+5m8
What serious operator of a service isn't budgeting time to implement and operate critical maintenance functions?

>>otterl+Pr8
Me for one. Adding an auto-updating IP address blocker to my personal blog site would probably cost more than setting up the whole site did in the first place.

>>chrisj+4u8
We're talking about sites that make their living via subscriptions. They should have a great interest at blocking archive.is, which is, by the way, the only service that can reliably bypass many paywalls. Clearly whatever they're doing is not easily replicated.

>>mr_mit+aG8
> We're talking about sites that make their living via subscriptions.

Sorry, but I wasn't. I thought that was clear from "can't afford the cost of keeping up-to-date with the Google IP list".

> They should have a great interest at blocking archive.is

Agreed, and many should have a budget to suit. So I conclude archive.is has put a lot of effort and cost into its defence. And all for free to us, the users.