Ask HN: How does archive.is bypass paywalls?

• puppeteer

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> Probably the people who operate archive.is just purchased subscriptions for the most common newspaper sites. And then they can use something like https://pptr.dev/ to automate login and article retrieval.

I would expect to see login information rather than "Sign In" and "Subscribe" buttons on archived articles then. Unless they're stripping that from the archive?

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I thought they used this browser extension: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

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