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  1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Oct-2018 03:01:40 UTC Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    It drives me crazy when sites block access via #Tor to read-only resources (like articles)---it doesn't make much sense to me. It's probably a quick decision by a team of people that don't really care or think about it, but it has strong effects that in the best case discourage use of an important privacy/anonymity tool, and in the worst case outright prevent certain users from accessing those resources (if Tor is their only option).

    A common workaround I use is to prepend "https://web.archive.org/" to the URL to load it in the #WaybackMachine from the Internet Archive. Sometimes websites block even that.

    The Internet Archive does great, important work, btw. Here's a recent article that emphasizes some of the major problems they're solving:

    https://blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/more-than-9-million-broken-links-on-wikipedia-are-now-rescued/
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    • INACTIVE (deadsuperhero)'s status on Saturday, 06-Oct-2018 09:49:48 UTC INACTIVE INACTIVE
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      @mikegerwitz as an aside, I found a really great short documentary about Internet Archive recently: https://vidcommons.org/videos/watch/6f3de05c-bdbb-4ea2-ac38-3dd86f2d70f3

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