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The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Ok, serious question. Why is it normally read/write? I’ve always treated it as being read only.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago

To you as a user it's readonly. To the thousands that submits urls for archival it is readwrite.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ok, serious question. Why is it normally read/write? I’ve always treated it as being read only.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I mean how else would they archive web sites or content?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I’ve always thought they were a crawler.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Web crawling?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

IA hosts TONS of user uploaded content. They’re not uploading those Gameboy ROMs themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 2 days ago (2 children)

...Google started adding links to archived websites in the Wayback Machine

They better be compensating it..

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I don't agree. Free linking has always been a vitally important part of the open internet. The principle that if I make something available on a specific URL, others can access it, and I don't get to charge others for linking to a public URL is one of the core concepts of the internet itself.

[–] [email protected] 150 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Google killed off their own cached pages last month and they're now using IA as a replacement. Free linking is definitely important, but this is Google we're talking about, and them using IA to save money - this feels a lot more exploitative if Google isn't funding them in some way.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think you're both right. Anyone should be able to link to an IA page, but Google basically was doing the same thing as IA with their cached pages. Now they've gotten rid of that service and are simply relying on IA to take all of the load that they had. I think they should help fund IA to compensate for the extra load.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I agree they should. But I also agree they shouldn't be required to. And if they don't, that we should just live with it as the lesser of two evils.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

currently* back only as readonly

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago

op forgot to mention that it is a "provisional, read-only manner,” according to founder Brewster Kahle.

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