To remove paywalls 12ft<Archive.org<Archive.today is my opinion.
https://x.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680?s=20
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971650
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.
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"
In my case I added override rules in my opnsense router so that archive.is .ph .today .md are all resolved by a different nameserver.
Disabling DOH can appear to fix it only in the happenstance case that the fallback plain dns doesn't end up using cloudflare, or doesn't use it first.
