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The Internet Archive is under attack, with a popup claiming a ‘catastrophic’ breach (www.theverge.com)

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[+] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] Adanisi 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

archive.org could archive the content and only publish it if the page has been dark for a certain amount of time.

It's user-driven. Nothing would get archived in this case. And what if the content changes but the page remains up? What then? Fairly sure this is why Wikipedia uses archives.

I agree that many sites use advertising in a different way. I use it in the older internet sense -- someone contacts me to sponsor a page or portion of the site, and that page gets a single banner, created in-house, with no tracking. I've been using the internet for 36 years. I'm well aware of many uses that I view as unethical, and I take great pains not to replicate them on my own site.

Pretty sure mainstream ad blockers won't block a custom in-house banner. And if it has no tracking, then it doesn't matter whether it's on Archive or not, you're getting paid the same, no?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

SEO killed the internet. You're literally part of the reason why people go look for alternatives to viewing your website, no one wants ads.