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No workaround link works for everyone, unfortunately.

I'm not in Europe, sorry it doesn't work for you, I provide it for those who it does work for.

archive.today has issues with certain DNS eg. 1.1.1.1 aka Cloudflare.[0] It isn't geofenced, and simply using another DNS is the easy fix to your troubles here.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

The solution isn’t to switch away from Cloudflare DNS. Particularly when the most notable alternative is Google or my ISP DNS who sells my internet history to the highest bidder.

I really wish the community would post links with a service that works on Cloudflare DNS.

Google is far from the only other viable DNS. https://www.quad9.net/ is a fast privacy oriented DNS

archive.is also blocks quad9 now. pretty much every privacy-oriented DNS service doesn't provide EDNS, which means that whether or not archive.is blocks them depends on whether or not the operator has gotten in a mood yet.

Wha? That is exactly the solution! Google is not in the first 100 of notable alternatives, is it? Really?

It's so incredibly easy and vastly better.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/

I used a pihole for years but got rid of it after it started feeling like a job to maintain.

It also doesn’t work on mobile unless on WiFi. Unless I also self-host a VPN I suppose.

wireguard is equally simple. Both pihole and wireguard are set and forget in my experience.

why anyone would use cloudflare for anything unless there were no other viable choice is beyond me. Honnestly, why?

DNS has many, vastly better alternatives.

edit: explanation I thought was common knowledge. Set "do not track" on your browser and watch cloudflare break the internet for you without your consent. Far, far too much centralized power. Just don't.

If you have DoH (DNS over HTTPS) turned on in Firefox, I think it defaults to Cloudflare as a DNS provider. I can't remember if DoH is on by default with Firefox though.

What DNS respects user privacy and is more reliable and fast than Cloudflare?

I’d love to be convinced to switch.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/

You "trust" cloudflare ?

Yes. I know the latest HN trend is to hate on Cloudflare, but I’ve had zero negative experiences even as a heavy user (dns and CDN and workers) even during the major downtime events.

The negativity toward Cloudflare has always confused me. I don’t get it.

1. have no relationship with cloudflare.

2. turn on "do not track"

3. reach enlightenment.

I like the archive.ph links. What alternative do you use? It would be easy to have users post both in a thread. Perhaps one of the European users could post the alternative.

https://ghostarchive.org/ is perhaps an alternative, and archive.org of course.

really? web.archive.org is arcane knowledge?

In this case the Wayback Machine and archive.ph handle the content similarly, but archive.ph is more resistant to content removal efforts and makes it easier to archive rapidly changing pages on demand.

I'm in Europe (Germany) and have been happily using them for years.

Interesting. Are there blocked by ISP or archive doesn't support Europe? I wonder if either way it's something to do with European laws? Germany in particular seems to have a cottage industry of copyright harassment

I'm in Europe, it's not blocked for me

Provide us with an alternative then?

No its not. What ISP are you with?

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