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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 appeared 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 immediately 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<\/a> 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