For some reason all the alternative "archive.XYZXDHWIQHDQ" type of sites always give me a captcha page, and I am never able to proceed. I'm assuming its to do with the cloudflare DNS, well if they don't care to fix it on their end, I don't care to use their service.
It's kind of a "everybody sucks" situation and there's no real winners.
Archive.[whatever] setup a server system to give you access from a country not your own, so that abusers have a harder time of archiving illegal content, then instantly reporting it to get the entire archive taken down. He uses EDNS to do this, but CF doesn't provide EDNS since it's a privacy issue to them.
So archive.[whatever] doesn't work for CF DNS because he doesn't want to risk bad actors being able to take down the archive.
Sensible reasons on both sides, especially for a service like archive.[whatever], and the real losers in this situation are the users.
Copying my previous comment over because I found a fix that works for me:
There's some issue with DNS over HTTPS, so you have to whitelist their sites in your settings, or turn off DNS over HTTPS (which I don't recommend).
To whitelist, on Firefox: Hamburger menu > settings > privacy and security > DNS over HTTPS > Manage exceptions > Add "archive.is", "archive.ph", and "archive.today"
Aside from not being censored at all, thereby enabling visiting sites which are blocked at DNS-level in some locations, there are several options for adblocking at DNS-level, too. Often eliminating the need for a Proxy or VPN to get access, with optional Adblock as a service.
What do you mean why not? The point is just to use anything other than cloudflare for archive.is, and mullvad is not cloudflare, so seems fine, go ahead.
There is no special reason not to use cloudflare dns in general though.
The problem is only between cloudflare and archive.is (and it's aliases) and it's hard to say if either side is wrong, except for the fact that either or both of them could figure out some special exception where they recognize each other's traffic if they cared to. Cloudflare are not censoring archive.is for example, and are not doing anything wrong.
Yes. I know. It's just that I had these problems too, when I used cf. Which I tried for speed, and some 'lawful' censoring reasons. Thereby running into the exact same problem.
Then I tried Mullvad-DNS, the speed was still there, the 'lawful' censoring was gone, the problems with archive-sites ceased to exist, and somewhat configurable adblocking-as-a-service.
It's a seamless 'plugin'-solution, not degrading anything.
