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Re:Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has ... by dredmorbius on Sunday March 17, 2019 @08:40AM (#19413676)
The Archive serves several functions, and the Wayback Machine's Web archive are only one of them. The link above addreses general removal requests.

There is information specific to the Wayback Machine (WBM) here:

https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360004716091-Wayb...

Please note that I'm not a member of Archive.org nor the Archive Team, just someone very happy that they exist (as they assure me they are as well), and am providing information as best I can.

The mechanisms of the Archive WBM and G+ mean that for your posts you can request removal of all items on or under your 21 digit numeric ProfileID, or, if you have one, a custom G+ URL.

All post URLs will match the form "https://plus.google.com/<profileID>/posts/<postID>"

Some other content, such as images and multimedia will not, though tht's generally harder to find without post and profile links in the first place.

If you have suggestions on improving the answers or remove process, please contact the Archive directly at [email protected] or see their forums pages. I've found them quite responsive.

https://archive.org/iathreads/forums.php

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Re:Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has ... by NeedMoreTea on Sunday March 17, 2019 @06:23PM (#19417117)
OK, that sounds more reasonable. The help page made it sound that unable to remove for not being uploaded by oneself - therefore have no archive ID or account to associate with was the most likely response.

Mostly I appreciate hugely what archive.org does, though like the root comment, I'm much less keen on ephemeral social networks preserved. Especially as most users will never see an announcement on a specialised reddit sub or HN, so will never know it wasn't all deleted like Google announced. Yes, I know it's not sensible to rely on no copies, but most naive users probably assume that. :)

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Re:Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has ... by dredmorbius on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:14PM (#19424167)
I'm definitely of mixed minds on this.

The fact that IA's WBM is a public rather than private archive helps their case, IMO. Though I don't necessarily agree in unlimited rights to mass-record all public data, doing so transparently beats private data brokers.

Google's own messaging on this has been largely abysmal as well. Don't get me started.

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