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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why are people fucking with the Internet Archive? Who benefits?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Copyright holders compete with old content clogging up the works. They wish the library would burn.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well right wingers want to ban books and services like IA make that harder since they provide easy access to download or digitally borrow those books. It makes it harder for them to deny people access to those books since they can find them online. Of course, there are other ways people can still obtain those books, IA isn't the only one, but it's the easiest and the most convent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Maybe they're just trolls doing it for the lulz.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

People use Archive links to avoid giving sites traffic.

This is a problem for advertisers and media corps.

Not saying they're the ones doing this, but they'd definitely benefit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I've enjoyed using Wayback Machine on journalistic articles where they try to retcon information, but the original copy had already been captured. The Ministry of Truth hates archive.org.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is this a problem, how would it affect real availability of ads? Except maybe tracking users.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Without tracking they don't have metrics for their ads, which effects reports and pricing. They really want to know if someone looks at an ad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's funny how these people feel like cockroaches.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Someone else looked to the group claiming responsibility for this. It's a pro-Palestinian Russian group

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Wouldn't put it past them...