{"id":718470,"date":"2026-03-23T22:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/russian-authorities-block-paywall-removal-site-archive-today\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:25:10","slug":"russian-authorities-block-paywall-removal-site-archive-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/russian-authorities-block-paywall-removal-site-archive-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian authorities block paywall removal site Archive.today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paywall bypass website Archive.today and several of its associated domains (including .is and .ph) have been blocked by Russian authorities, according to error pages that app<\/a>eared when loading its websites.<\/p>\n

The pages appear blocked as of Monday when TechCrunch visited the websites from the U.S. East Coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A page in Russian said: \u201cAccess to the Internet resource Blocked by decision of the public authorities,\u201d citing the Russian government agency responsible for internet censorship, Roskomnadzor.<\/p>\n

According to Roskomnadzor\u2019s listing for Archive.is<\/a>, authorities confirmed that \u201caccess is limited to the page,\u201d but did not give a reason at the time of publication. Archive.today does not list as blocked when TechCrunch checked.<\/p>\n

A representative for Roskomnadzor did not immedia<\/a>tely respond to TechCrunch\u2019s inquiries outside working hours in Moscow.<\/p>\n

TechCrunch was still able to access the Archive sites from various other devices and networks, and was able to archive a web page regardless of the apparent block. It\u2019s not clear how extensive the block is, or who implemented it.<\/p>\n

Archive.today is a well-known website for archiving copies of websites, including content typically hidden behind a paywall or a subscription log-in. Wikipedia editors recently decided to remove hundreds of thousands of links to Archive.today, saying they\u2019d discovered Archive.today\u2019s code uses visitors\u2019 web browsers \u2014 without their knowledge \u2014 to bombard the website of a blogger who was critical of Archive.today\u2019s operations with junk network traffic.<\/p>\n

The website operators behind Archive.today did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

(h\/t <\/em>Ryan O\u2019Horo on Bluesky<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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