But why do people trust it? How do you know the pages you're archiving haven't been tampered with selectively to change history? This is just out of sheer curiosity, and I am not saying they do this.
This is made further interesting because of the following:
- Analytics from various Russian providers, instead of self-hosted (FYI: I consider GA to be equally privacy-violating as Metrika or Mail.ru)
- Large amounts of reverse proxies off questionable or bulletproof hosting providers
- Indefinitely doing this can't necessarily be cheap either at scale, who is paying for this?
- Demanding tracking or else blocking your access to the site, blocking any resolver that doesn't send the first 3 octets of your IP to them (edns-client-subnet)
- Explicitly tracking you in odd ways: they repeatedly load pixels/do DNS preconnect/preload from wildcard subdomains containing a cookied number, IP, country, tracking IDs. View any archived page and ^F "pixel.archive.is"