tl;dr: No. Quite the opposite, actually — Archive.is’s owner is intentionally blocking 1.1.1.1 users.
CloudFlare’s CEO had this to say on HackerNews:
We don’t block archive.is or any other domain via 1.1.1.1. […] Archive.is’s authoritative DNS servers return bad results to 1.1.1.1 when we query them. I’ve proposed we just fix it on our end but our team, quite rightly, said that too would violate the integrity of DNS and the privacy and security promises we made to our users when we launched the service. […] The archive.is owner has explained that he returns bad results to us because we don’t pass along the EDNS subnet information. This information leaks information about a requester’s IP and, in turn, sacrifices the privacy of users.
I am mainly making this post so that admins/moderators at BeeHaw will consider using archive.org or ghostarchive.org links instead of archive.today links.
Because anyone using CloudFlare’s DNS for privacy is being denied access to archive.today links.
Because anyone using CloudFlare’s DNS for privacy is being denied access to archive.today links.
Yes, which makes Archive.is a terrible service… Because they don’t get super fine details of where your connection is originating from they poison the DNS response they give cloudflare. Any site that weaponizes DNS then blames me for choosing to not allow them to do so… Fuck them.
It might be terrible for you but it’s very handy for the rest of us.
If it’s so bad, maybe just pay to bypass all the paywalls that the site removes from your way. Having your local ISPs details sent through is a small price to pay for the convenience.
it’s very handy for the rest of us.
How is it more handy than Archive.org? You can submit URLs for archival just the same, and it doesn’t require user tracking.
I’ve used Archive.is before, but seeing this I won’t anymore.
EDIT: after some digging (see comment thread) and further consideration… I’m not sure anymore.
It’s way faster for one. It actively scrapes articles from behind paywalls, using a bank of credentials it has. Archive.org respects robots.txt and will take down copyrighted material on request. Archive.is doesn’t do any of that.
I would view it as complementary to archive.org. it’s more like sci-hub to me. A useful tool, run by one person who likes the idea of providing such a service.
What exactly do you think is being tracked by your ECS being sent along with DNS requests? All it means is that archive.is can’t load balance properly because they don’t know what their nearest server to your location is. If you’re so privacy conscious that leaking a portion of your IP to a DNS provider, then hardcode archive.is IPs into your hosts file or use a VPN. Not that your problem can really be with archive.is, because you’re visiting the site anyway, giving them your full IP.
It just seems like such a non issue to me.
Time to add 1.1.1.1 to my list of DNS servers to use
