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Managed to get access to Marvel Rivals' alpha? Make sure you don't criticise it, as that contract you signed doesn't let you (web.archive.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Basically you get the best of... nearly everything.

But I don't get the best of everything. I get the experience you want to have, which is not the same as mine. I don't want to wait forever for the archive to dig the site out if nobody has accessed it the last few minutes. I don't want to have to use Firefox reader mode to have an acceptable experience. Not to mention that you can use reader view with most sites themselves and get all its benefits anyways.

I don't want compulsory ad blocking. I know hating online publications in hip here but maybe I want them to survive so I don't want to block their ads. And conversely I don't want to put unnecessary traffic on archive websites from everyone going through them to read the article as opposed to only the people that want to.

If you access from Europe you get a "cookie wall" (which I don't think it's EU compliant)

I'm not from eu and that's not the prompt I got. It only had accept and manage buttons and the manage button opened a thing that had a reject all button.

on the archive.org saved page you also get the online address too.

If the archive link wasn't the default (and only) option you wouldn't need to use reader mode or get the address from the archive (and waste time doing so) to get back to a good experience. Like I said, put the archive in the body if you want so that people have options, but don't make it default.