I've tried to access certain pages of this website through Wayback Machine (and people are clearly still archiving the pages), but the forced Terms of Service screen makes it basically impossible. Is there a way around it or does it mean archiving e621.net is oit of the question?
Topic: e621 and Wayback Machine
Posted under General
The content is still there under the notice, just open the inspector and delete the element, or use an adblocking extension to hide it
The TOS popup is just a div with some CSS applied to make it obscure the page.
The page is still there; accepting the TOS doesn't cause it to load a new page, it just hides the TOS div and re-enables scrolling.
So Wayback should still be getting everything when it archives a page here.
braixenarchivist said:
The page is still there; accepting the TOS doesn't cause it to load a new page, it just hides the TOS div and re-enables scrolling.
This was true with the old TOS page but it's actually not true for the current TOS page, the current page sends a POST request and sets a cookie, so you cannot accept it to get through it on the wayback machine, you have no choice but deleting the element
Thank you very much for your help. It took finding a mobile browser with dev tools, but I managed to access the image I was looking for.