Innerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours 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-square53fedilinkarrow-up1403arrow-down14
arrow-up1399arrow-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 · 21 hours agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 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-up1·edit-21 hour 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.