Innerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month 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-square70fedilinkarrow-up1491arrow-down14cross-posted to: reddit@lemmy.world
arrow-up1487arrow-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 month agomessage-square70fedilinkcross-posted to: reddit@lemmy.world
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoThe users are still the users though, not the product like Reddit.
minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month 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-up2·edit-21 month 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.
The users are still the users though, not the product like Reddit.
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.