▲ 526 ▼ At least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their content (www.mediapost.com) submitted 5 months ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 64 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) The users are still the users though, not the product like Reddit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) Oh yeah, not saying they are generally equivalent, just in that one particular aspect: access to comment data for any purpose. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) Oh yeah, not saying they are generally equivalent, just in that one particular aspect: access to comment data for any purpose. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* 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. permalink fedilink source parent