I do hope this move results in more support for the IA/Wayback Machine and helps them to update some of their crawler tech — thanks to the rise of AI, some sites are effectively (thru captchas etc.) or actively (through straight-up greed [coughRedditcough]) blocked from being archived almost entirely, which is frustrating for legit archivists/contributors.
brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Good reminder to donate to web.archive.org
mayabuttreeks@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
While archive.org is good and more trustworthy than archive.is, it isn’t as useful for bypassing paywalls.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
But Wikipedia doesn’t need to bypass paywalls, and you can bypass them yourself with a bit of work.
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
There’s websites that even Bypass Paywalls Clean can’t bypass. That doesn’t mean an alternative to archive.is shouldn’t be found, but we also shouldn’t pretend that nothing is being lost by losing access to unpaywalled sources. For practical purposes, a paywalled source means no source for most readers, unless a non-paywalled alternative can be found to replace it.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s good for you, and it is okay for you to use archive.today personally, as long as you block their DDoSing.
But Wikipedia does not need to bypass paywalls, and they don’t require the source to be freely (or easily) viewable to verify the info.