As if it wasn't already an obsolete service to begin with.
The moment they started "respecting" no-archive rules in robots.txt, is the moment I stopped using it altogether.
Anything archived on archive.org is a waste of time. It's like archiving a page with google..
archive.is until it dies.
The moment they started "respecting" no-archive rules in robots.txt
When was that?
They thankfully increasingly started disrespecting Robots.txt increasingly since 2017, but
The Internet Archive holds important parts of Internet history (including that huge YouTube annotation archive) and much more. If they go down or corrupt (like YouTube, sadly), that would be a disaster.
An organisation founded by an employee of Internet Archive, ArchiveTeam by Jason Scott Sadofsky, although doing excellent work in terms of rescuing information from endangered sites and social media accounts, is showing some cracks: A report in has uncovered questionable behaviour and terrible management of criticism by their founder.
The Internet Archive has lots of material the SJW crowd would prefer if it disappeared. They are just testing the waters with this covid scare and will gradually ask the Internet Archive to post other notices as well, like "this is too racist and you shouldn't be reading it and your local police department should be notified" and so on.
I'm talking pre 2017. Don't care that they started relaxing the restriction slightly, the fact that they did it in the first place was the only red flag I needed.
Considering they're doing more and more screwy crap, it would seem my initial assumption was spot on.
I see.
Maybe they are trying to keep out of legal trouble. But yes, I dislike that too.
But I wonder how Archive.Today does that then. And where they get the money to host their site.
trusted citation in the future
Source: https://web.archive.org/save
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