I discovered just yesterday that Verizon home internet blocks archive.is. Changing the router DNS from their default to openDNS fixed the problem for me, so it looks like they made only a nominal effort to block it.
This issue seemed to resolve itself sometime in the past year. I’m not sure if that’s because Cloudflare decided to surrender some of my PII in exchange for eDNS resolution or if archive.is finally stopped demanding it from them.
If I read that word salad correctly, Cloudflare says they're blocking it because they want to "protect the privacy" of users who do a DNS lookup of archive.today, to prevent the requester's IP address from being reviealed to archive.
That seems ludicrous, given that after a DNS lookup, the next thing anybody does is to send an HTTP request, which obviously reveals that same IP address to the archive servers.
So it's an obvious and blatant lie by Cloudflare, and I wonder what their real reason is.
