That invaluable website archive.org has a new message at the top that appeared the other day which says
"Dear Internet Archive Patrons,
We need your help to make sure the Internet Archive lasts forever. On November 9, we woke up to a new administration promising radical change."
This got me wondering about who this new administration might be and what their intentions are.
As it is such a valuable resource for information many have wanted hidden, providing a window into the past versions of many websites, would it not be a target for those wanting to delete certain information from it's archives so it would never be found by researchers?
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VieBleu ago
From what 1 commentor wrote to me, yes, but take that for what it is worth. archive.is is being recommended
norobotono ago
Wikipedia says
"Unlike crawlers such as Wayback Machine, archive.is only captures individual pages in response to explicit user requests, and so does not obey the robots exclusion standard.[6] Because of this, website owners cannot unilaterally remove content at will, thus it is a "permanent" archive"
On the one hand this is good and allows pages to be shown that crawlers cannot find with robot.txt blocking them, but it's downside is that it only archives what people put there.
If damning pages start being removed from archive.org then there is no way to duplicate them to archive.is.
For now, people would be advised to duplicate any page found on the web or on archive.org to archive.is to be on the safe side.