Getting hit with this a lot lately. I don’t really give a shit if the private sector blocks Tor -- they simply lose my business. But as public sites increasingly join the arbitrary blockade against Tor, our dependency on archive.org increases. As archive.org increasingly shows Tor users the door, the web becomes more useless.
I will if it continues but I have to say archive.org is well aware of Tor. They used to have an onion host but it died years ago after a very brief deployment. Cloudflare has some kind of partnership with archive.org which is a bit infuriating but at least archive.org is not using CF (CF being the main cause that drives us over to archive.org).
(update) Glad your comment inspired me to re-examine the onion situation. It’s back:
archivep75mbjunhxc6x4j5mwjmomyxb573v42baldlqu56ruil2oiad.onion
This is indeed the fix. Shame redirection does not work. There are 2 kinds of clearnet→onion redirection and archive.org uses neither of them.
(edit) Many of the webpages I try have not been archived yet, which is unlikely. It seems the onion site does not share the same DB as the clearnet site. But at least the save option finally works. Strangely, after saving a page “for the first time”, I visit and the IAWB bar at the top showed 5000+ saves already made on the page I visited. So it’s buggy.
(edit2) Fuck me.. got the same error on the onion site:
Your request is being blocked because our system has flagged it as suspected abusive bot traffic that is degrading the performance of the Wayback Machine.
We recognize this might be a false positive designation, that you might be a normal human and browser just trying to use our service. We apologize if that is the case.
Please know we are actively working to provide better service to humans and block high-volume robotic traffic that is overloading our systems. We wish that was an easier task.
Please email info@archive.org with your OS/Browser and IP number if you would like us to look into this.