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Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by gnode on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:05AM (#16966033)
As I mentioned in a top-level comment, you can use robots.txt to disable Internet Archive's (Wayback Machine) archiving of your site. If you dislike your site being archived, I suggest you do this. Their intention is not to be a monster of the Internet who embarrass creators against their will.
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Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by fiddlerwoaroof on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @12:33PM (#16968611)
This is a major issue with the internet archive because it allows subsequent owners of a domain to blackhole the previous content.
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Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by gnode on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @01:39PM (#16969312)
One solution to this might be to maintain separate archives when a domain changes ownership, based on WHOIS information. Previous owners could still request deletion via email as is currently possible.
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