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archive.org is a treasure
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does this actually help the internet archive in any way? as in are your local ressources used or ad revenue generated? i fail to see how telling them to archive everything you visit is of any help to them. other than you being basically a crawler, i guess
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i still think this kind of shotgun approach is not ideal, and the extension seems more like a service to me than a way to help the ia. so “help contribute” is not the wording i would chose. but i very well might be missing the point. i do love the internet archive and their fight for information freedom, don’t get me wrong. this was more of a nitpick.
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Long time fan but suddenly hit with impassable captcha 🤔
The Internet is not forever after all
Lmao never was. Shit you don’t want on the Internet will never leave. Shit you do want on the Internet fucking disappears all the goddamned time.
It looks like they misunderstand how to improve their SEO ranking
In fact, on Tuesday, Google’s SearchLiaison X account tweeted, “Are you deleting content from your site because you somehow believe Google doesn’t like “old” content? That’s not a thing! Our guidance doesn’t encourage this. Older content can still be helpful, too. Learn more about creating helpful content.”
They really don’t. They’re going to hurt their domain authority and back links.
It’s more valuable to make an update to past pages because Google sees it as useful content that is being maintained.
You’re supposed to make tweaks once a year so it’s not stale, not nuke yourself.
TBH this doesn’t make me certain this tactic won’t work, Google hardly seems to know how their SEO works. They sorta intentionally do this so they can blame anything suspicious on their black box, “AI”.
Yeah I own an SEO business and that’s not how any of this works
Unfortunately, we are penalized by the modern Internet for leaving all previously published content live on our site
Even if this is true, which I doubt, why not edit your robots.txt to disallow them to index it and leave the content up?
That wouldn’t generate news hype
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However, before deleting an article, CNET reportedly maintains a local copy, sends the story to The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and notifies any currently employed authors that might be affected at least 10 days in advance.
People are freaking out so bad about this story. They’re doing the right thing and archiving it before deletion. Settle down.
How many CNET articles from 2004 are you reading that you’re getting this angry about it?
Storage and bandwidth have never been cheaper. If you’re not doing some grand replacement of the CMS, it’s less effort NOT to remove old content.
I love the argument they’re trying to make: if they prune enough content, everything looks fresh and new. So you’re effectively discarding one of the most valuable assets you have-- the fact you’ve been doing the same thing for 25 years and have some established credibility-- for a perception of “fast” that could be imitated by any number of content mills or AI services.
If you’re looking at a review of a RTX 4090, it says a lot when the same site also scored the Radeon VII, Geforce 3 Ti, and S3 Savage.
Jesus. I long for the day we get rid of this cancerous companies that just ruin the internet with every day that passes.
The internet Archiv Probably still has it and fuck them wanting to appeal to fucking Google search.
However, before deleting an article, CNET reportedly maintains a local copy, sends the story to The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and notifies any currently employed authors that might be affected at least 10 days in advance
From the article, CNET is archiving it on Wayback themselves.
Good.
Money ruins everything.
All of the geocities websites I used to go to proved that the internet wasn’t forever. Did anyone really think it was?
