Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge (businessinsider.com)

I am part of an informal group involved in actively archiving websites, and the ones behind Cloudflare Captchas are barely archive-able. I presumed Cloudflare had a deal with Archive.org but I guess it went no where? https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-always-online-and-th...

sadeshmukh · 44d ago

It's still a setting in their dashboard, but the site owner has to manually enable Always Online.

charcircuit · 45d ago

Are you using ios or macos to have access to private access tokens?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-...

qingcharles · 44d ago

This looks like a useful solution for scraping. It doesn't prove you're a human, simply that you can afford to buy an iPhone. So buy the cheapest iPhone that supports this on eBay and then use that for scraping and archiving from now on.

lxgr · 45d ago

Given that these tokens are intentionally designed to distinguish human from bot traffic, I'd be surprised if they were (easily) available to archival tooling.

charcircuit · 44d ago

The URLSession API supports private access tokens (it's handled for you automatically) while your app is foregrounded.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/urlsess...

lxgr · 44d ago

Oh, interesting! But I'd still expect these to be heavily rate limited etc. – otherwise, the people captcha-protected sites are hoping to keep out could just use these, right?

charcircuit · 44d ago

At what rate are archivers solving Cloudflare challenges though? Probably not enough to hit any kind of rate limit. This is only used for the initial challenge and not for every request.

mellosouls · 44d ago

Plenty of other archives around the world; one would hope any impediments to them doing their job due to Cloudflare would have a more general solution than a single partner.

neom · 47d ago

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPg2V5RVh7U

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