Innerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoWikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Linksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down11
arrow-up1125arrow-down1external-linkWikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Linksarstechnica.comInnerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-square🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·11 hours agoDammit. Everyone’s been using that site to get around paywalls because it works well. Now I have to go find another one that works as well. :|
minus-squarebetterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·11 hours agoThere are others that don’t DDoS blogs.
minus-square🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoWell, yes, I’ll be off looking for them next time I need to use an archival site. I’m bummed to learn this crap about archive.ph.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-211 hours agoIt works well because they use paid accounts to scrape a bunch of paywalled sites, which is why publishers are trying to figure out who runs it. It’s completely untrustworthy now that they’ve shown that they can (and do) edit archived pages.
Dammit. Everyone’s been using that site to get around paywalls because it works well. Now I have to go find another one that works as well. :|
There are others that don’t DDoS blogs.
Well, yes, I’ll be off looking for them next time I need to use an archival site. I’m bummed to learn this crap about archive.ph.
It works well because they use paid accounts to scrape a bunch of paywalled sites, which is why publishers are trying to figure out who runs it.
It’s completely untrustworthy now that they’ve shown that they can (and do) edit archived pages.