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Archive.is doesn't seem to be affected by the redirect strategy.

Archive.is goes to a lot of work in order to make archiving pages on widely-used sites actually work, from what I can tell.

Archive.is is awesome. It just works.

Archive.is is awesome but I’ve seen multiple really big sites archive poorly. Some of them because the version of Chrome that archive.is is using is getting quite old.

They are running Chrome/41.0, which was released in the beginning of 2015.

https://archive.is/3PxoF

> It is very tricky to run, it depends on an exact version of Chrome, which binary also must be patched in order to reduce security (to allow saving content of frames, etc).

https://blog.archive.is/post/45984102073/can-the-archived-pa...

Who pays for it?

I've always asked the same question myself... I don't think they are a nonprofit like the IA. Their FAQ says "It is privately funded" and wrt ads "I cannot make a promise that it will not". Years ago there was an archiving service that displayed ads, but unfortunately I don't remember which one it was... I vaguely remember it could have been archive.is, but I'm not sure.

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