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Probably the people who operate archive.is just purchased subscriptions for the most common newspaper sites. And then they can use something like https://pptr.dev/ to automate login and article retrieval.

I would expect to see login information rather than "Sign In" and "Subscribe" buttons on archived articles then. Unless they're stripping that from the archive?

Exactly. It also would not be difficult for website operators to embed hidden user info in their served pages, thereby finding out the archive.is account. This approach seems risky for archive.is.

They could just copy the div with the content over to evade detection of the website’s owner

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