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Thank you for all y’all have done.
I have a problem with the Wayback Machine’s Admin.
They are tor-hostile. Despite offering an .onion version. I cannot archive even ONE site. Because “I” have apparently “already archived my limit of 200 page saves” or whatever the error states. Otherwise I can use a login, apparently. Hey why are you so ignorant of one aspect here? That ANY logging-in ANYWHERE – instantly allows the (e.g. PRISM) US mass surveillance laws to steal my privacy forever. Since you are USA-based.
Privacy is a human right, even if using the WBM is obviously not.
Tor exit nodes should have an exception made, because they are obviously mass-usage not one individual using them. I guess someone must have abused this before, but since you don’t link to an article proving this abuse or at least explaining it – just a “email us if you wish to discuss this further”. Email is not fit for purpose as it is not encrypted and the NSA insists upon control-freaking the world via mass surveillance. What part of that do you not get?
I don’t know if the attack on your infrastructure recently used tor, but it wasn’t my fault. Blaming the vehicle type for the occupants behaviour is a bit unethical.
Even IF I can manage to archive a site, it typically doesn’t even save properly! For example, simple IMAGES don’t get archived, just empty placeholders, making ZERO sense to even bother and I’m talking about small pages not hundreds of MB of images.
Also, thank the control freaks’ KYC rules, because I don’t want to donate whilst making a list of my political affiliations for mass surveillance to profile. Oh, of course it’s about fighting ‘terrorism’ and ‘money laundering’, because we didn’t learn from the excuses Hitler used that were similar. I would donate $1000 to allow better usage of tor. It probably wouldn’t fix the issue, you tell me the cost, but I would do it.