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by i67vw3 959 days ago
There is a bit of 'tussle' going on between the two of them for quite a few years as you pointed out.

https://x.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680?s=20

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971650

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971552

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IIRC:

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.