I archive vids and post back to thrread a lot but not enough. Thanks for your work and the update.
Thanks for your efforts also.
I almost said fuck it and was going to quit posting mirrors and archives entirely not long ago after a red-named person started to bitch at me for posting an archive link for an article they linked to. Seriously, bitching at me for posting an archive link for the article they posted. They thought the site deserved the click and they intentionally didn't want it archived to force people to click their link in order to read the article. If an archive link is posted then people are able to easily use it instead of their direct link and that pissed off the apparently communist dictator.
I think both a direct link and an archive should be available so others can choose for themselves how they want to view the article. Hell, I even try to put some archive.org links along side the archive.today links because some spoiled-brat TOR users constantly (constantly) bitch about archive.today and how they need to do captchas to view those archive links as a result of using TOR. I rarely bother adding those anymore because of their bitching about it.
Considering that many of our side appear to be as spoiled, lazy, attention-deficient, and have as strong a sense of entitlement as niggers, and also with how clownworld is going and where it looks to be heading considering the information that people share on here about the insanity going on, going into a thread and seeing that someone else has already backed up and shared a mirror for a vid or posted an archive for the OP's link is one of the top highlights of my day. A bit sad, yeah, but it is so rare that it happens that it makes my day. While it only saves a minute of time from doing it myself, it means more that it is evidence that someone else also gives a shit about helping out our side, it shows me not everyone is no better than a nigger, and it restores just a bit of my hope in us, our side and our future.
Hell, I even try to put some archive.org links along side the archive.today links because some spoiled-brat TOR users constantly (constantly) bitch about archive.today and how they need to do captchas to view those archive links as a result of using TOR.
There's 2 reasons TOR users bitch about archive.today. They throw up a captcha but google makes it unsolvable for TOR users, no matter how many times you correctly solve the google captcha they just keep re-presenting it to you. At one time I solved over 20 times (I lost count) but it still wouldn't send me to the article.
So it's a dead link to TOR users.
We can't get to it to even copy the live URL to click through to the origin site. On top of that, archive.today does that because they monetize that click data by geographical location. If TOR users, certain VPN's or certain providers hit an AT link the click is worthless to them so they throw up an unsolvable captcha. And honestly, if someone is getting paid for the click I'd rather it be the content creator.
And just because something is useful doesn't mean it's benign. They sell that data to anyone, not just marketers but people who want to build profiles on the dissident right. So I'm one of those "spoiled-brats." I've never advocated banning AT though, just asked folks to post the source link the post text.
I do understand why it happens and I agree with your points. I agree that the source link should accompany an archive link. Several users who do post archive.today links as their OP link do include the source link in their post body and I agree that is quite proper and respectful of them to other users to include both. I am sure to do this myself as well in instances when I post any links in my comments; include the source link, an archive.today link, and sometimes an archive.org link if that site will actually archive a link for me (it refuses to many times).
I was not clear at all in my wording with my "spoiled-brats" comment and what I was referring to and I should have been. I have not seen a TOR user comment regarding only an archive.today link being provided and no source. I understand why that would be improper and useless to some. What I have seen commented toward me and others is that the source/direct link is available in the OP or in a comment and it is just that the archive.today link that is also shared along with it is not the right archive site.
That is the basis for my comment regarding my seeing people complaining about the archive.today links being supplied as being spoiled and entitled - that someone put the effort in to archive the source link that someone posted in order to be kind and help out others, but these users would then complain about it not being an archive link that they can use instead of just archiving the source link on archive.org themselves. It reminded me of a spoiled rich brat getting a red BMW for her 16th birthday who then stomps her feet and complains that it wasn't yellow or that it wasn't a Mercedes like she wanted.
Sorry for writing in an insufficient and confusing manner and I hope what I was trying to relate has come across.
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