Someone at archive.ph browsed amazon to buy sex toys and it got archived, lmao - We have the logs.

People keep saying this.

If that's true, then reproduce it. I'll believe it then.
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https://archive.ph/MoQnP
 
This is hilarious but it's probably just people archiving various 'add to cart' links as Lizard Queen says. Else why would somebody just leave them in the cart and not buy them. Also using production computers to do personal shopping would be extremely retarded and a huge security problem on all sorts of levels and I doubt archive.ph would do something as completely fucktarded as that.

Still, 10/10 bait.
 
TL;DR it's a funny trick you could do with the older Amazon Orders API (but can't anymore because they decommed it in July)

The reason all the wacky shit being added to the cart stopped at the end of July was because the older Amazon Order API (that you could use to force items into the cart without confirmation) was decommissioned:

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That's why you see a bunch of shit getting added up until the July 31st date, and then in the archives past that date nothing has been added.

The newer API option for "adding to cart" forces a confirmation page before adding to cart that can't really be bypassed programmatically to add it to the archive-bots cart, instead it'll just be the confirmation page:
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They got rid of the older API since people were using the same techniques possible on the older API to try and sneak products into people's carts maliciously and covertly. So instead, they got rid of the API and no similar exploits have been found in the latest 5.0 version yet. If they do, expect to see the archive.md's shopping cart to start filling up with silly shit again.
 
This should be featured as a cautionary tale of why doing a little more research into a story is a good thing before posting it to community happenings.
I feel like this is a lesson for developers too. I'm not sure what a good generic lesson is, but I feel like if archive.today were my project I'd want to make it reset sessions... If not with each request, maybe like once a week or something? Just in case there's a way to break the archiver with some bad data somehow.
 
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Edit: It isn't true??? Aww man I wanted to judge trannies.
On one hand, I think the archive's blog was on Tumblr, so not much can be expected of them.

On the other hand, if they were run by troons, KF would have been removed from archive.ph shortly after it was removed from archive.org when the troons were calling for it.
 
This should be featured as a cautionary tale of why doing a little more research into a story is a good thing before posting it to community happenings.
Or maybe just think about it for one second.
How would the sex toy shopping trip affect the archiving script? Even if you ran the browser directly on the server it wouldn't affect archived pages at all since they wouldn't be using the same cookie storage.
 
Or maybe just think about it for one second.
How would the sex toy shopping trip affect the archiving script? Even if you ran the browser directly on the server it wouldn't affect archived pages at all since they wouldn't be using the same cookie storage.
The lovely man who runs Archive.Today has, historically, had logged in dummy accounts (presumably with permanent cookies) on things like Facebook and Instagram so it can scrape more data. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd done the same on Amazon.
 
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