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As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260413111431/https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-tool-is-in-mortal-peril/

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 20 points 16 hours ago

Journalism is already dead if journalists cannot defend the archive service for their journalism from the pointless wrath of their own employers.

shrugs I mean I look forward to one day rebuilding these things when we finally have a chance but this is the end of the road for traditional news organizations on the internet.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I couldn't even read this all because "I have already read my last free article...

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

What’s up with that anyways?

If you go in with no cookies you still get that. Bitch you don’t s know what I’ve read! Maybe I’ve never read wired even offline. Then your statement is false.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

Maybe they're using other fingerprinting techniques to tell. I get that too but I switch to another computer and I get the full article.

[–] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 6 points 16 hours ago

I take it as a threat. Come at me, wired!

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 11 points 16 hours ago

It's all about the benjamins:

A number of other major journalism organizations have also recently moved to restrict the Wayback Machine from archiving their stories, including The New York Times. According to analysis by the artificial-intelligence-detection startup Originality AI, 23 major news sites are currently blocking ia_archiverbot, the web crawler commonly used by the Internet Archive for the Wayback project. The social platform Reddit is too. Other outlets are limiting the project in different ways: The Guardian does not block the crawler, but it excludes its content from the Internet Archive API and filters out articles from the Wayback Machine interface, which makes it harder for regular people to access archived versions of its articles.

[–] leoj@piefed.zip 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

truth will die if there is no independent archive.

[–] homes@piefed.world 5 points 14 hours ago

I certainly hope that the Wayback machine is setting up a number of independent proxies.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

IMO all things on the clearnet will eventually succumb to near constant corporate influence. I2P will be the main way people actually use the internet in the future I think, though ofc I only have a surface level knowledge of what it is.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I2p has some serious issues

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago

I don't doubt it.