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by m463 2267 days ago
archive.* has some really strange dns-based tracking built in
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Elaborate? Are you talking about the whole cloudflare ecs debacle?
if you load archive.<x> it will load a cache-busting specific-to-you dns name

your.ip.address.foo.lots.of.stuff.pixel.archive.<x>/pixel.gif

that gets by most blacklists including umatrix and others

and they have a new domain name dujour so that too.

Anything on Archive.* fails to resolve for me for this reason; I just don't bother clicking their links anymore either.