Fabio ManganielloA tip to all the #Searxng admins out there: replace all results to paywalled sources with links to archive.is / archive.ph.
This is my configuration for example:
hostnames: replace: '^(www\.)?nytimes\.com$': 'archive.is/https://nytimes.com' '^(www\.)?bloomberg\.com$': 'archive.is/https://bloomberg.com' '^(www\.)?washingtonpost\.com$': 'archive.is/https://washingtonpost.com' '^(www\.)?ft\.com$': 'archive.is/https://ft.com' '^(www\.)?newyorker\.com$': 'archive.ph/https://newyorker.com' '^(www\.)?theatlantic\.com$': 'archive.ph/https://theatlantic.com' '^([\w-]+).substack\.com$': 'archive.is/https://\1.substack.com' '^(www\.)?newscientist\.com$': 'archive.is/https://newscientist.com'In a time where democracy is threatened by late-stage capitalism and paywalls (voters can’t take sound decisions if access to reliable information is protected by dozens of subscriptions, and all that is left for free is social media memes and 3rd-hand misinformation), and where we seriously run the risk of the next generations being unable to even access the news from our age, this is a civic duty.
If the page the user is looking for hasn’t been archived yet, then the user may be prompted to do so - and, by doing so, the user of your search engine has just become an archivist that ensures that one more piece of information will be available to tomorrow’s historians.
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