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semiquaverlast Friday at 6:59 PM3 repliesview on HN

Funny how the words are all backwards on archive.is: https://archive.ph/3BvNR


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jostylrlast Friday at 9:46 PM

It is even a bit more scrambled such as this part: hcihw selcihev selcihev ot ot ot ot erauqs strap. Looking at the original site, that text is in various nested structures with the paragraphs having that kind of text. They have multiple bits of it being an article block with a .is-paywalled governing various behaviors such as showing ads. The scrambled text is in paragraphs within the separate article portions. Presumably they have a script that will decode it for those to login though I do not understand why they even provide the text? Why not just return it after login? Maybe it is total trash text and just there to pad it out like a lorum ipso. Kind of interesting.

m463last Friday at 9:46 PM

I saw that too - have adblocker.

whatever, close page.

mikestewlast Friday at 9:55 PM

The words are backward if you go the original page and turn on reader mode to get around the paywall. “Ha ha!”, they say, “your reader mode powers are no good here!”

So archive.ph is presumably just picking that up.