Seems like the NYT found a way to fuck with archive.is. There’s a gigantic overl...

aspenmayer · 2024-05-12T16:43:29 1715532209

I found this via the topbar history nav on archive.is when visiting the original link you’re replying to:

also available on Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240507155229/https://www.nytim...

Etheryte · 2024-05-12T16:45:25 1715532325

It is an SVG loading indicator that's broken when embedded on the archive page, nothing to do with NYT trying to obfuscate archival tools.

pbhjpbhj · 2024-05-12T19:30:07 1715542207

>nothing to do with NYT trying to obfuscate archival tools //

How would you know? Seems pretty likely based on how companies try to enshitify the web.

Etheryte · 2024-05-12T21:39:30 1715549970

Looking at the code, there is nothing malignant going on, it's simply a common CSS + SVG bug. Most people wouldn't know how to intentionally write this so that it breaks on one page, but works on the other. Occam's razor etc.

cobbzilla · 2024-05-12T18:50:16 1715539816

install uBlock Origin, block content element, it’s gone (until they change things to not match the selector anyway)