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Even if you get past the loop, the fact that archive.is is now using third party CAPTCHAs means that their provider can track your interests: They can correlate the page you came from, the archived content you wanted, your browser fingerprint, your IP address if not using a VPN, etc. If it's a big provider like CloudFlare or Google (spoiler: it is) they can also correlate all that with a significant chunk of your non-Lemmy web browsing.
This is why I no longer use archive.is.
Are there any alternatives?
The best one I know is https://web.archive.org/
Unfortunately, no archive site manages to archive every article before a paywall goes up. I've had the best luck on archive.org by selecting the earliest snapshot they have.