Innerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days 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-square70linkfedilinkarrow-up1414arrow-down12cross-posted to: reddit@lemmy.world
arrow-up1412arrow-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 · 3 days agomessage-square70linkfedilinkcross-posted to: reddit@lemmy.world
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days agoThe users are still the users though, not the product like Reddit.
minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days 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-up3·2 days 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.
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.