Innerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoAt least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their contentwww.mediapost.comexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1499arrow-down14
arrow-up1495arrow-down1external-linkAt least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their contentwww.mediapost.comInnerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square68fedilink
minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 hours agoOh yeah, not saying they are generally equivalent, just in that one particular aspect: access to comment data for any purpose.
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-212 hours agoYep. TBH I think it’s kind of silly for the Fediverse to try and block scraping, as long as that scraping isn’t effectively a DDoS. It’s public.
Oh yeah, not saying they are generally equivalent, just in that one particular aspect: access to comment data for any purpose.
Yep.
TBH I think it’s kind of silly for the Fediverse to try and block scraping, as long as that scraping isn’t effectively a DDoS. It’s public.