Re:Ask HN: Who owns archive.is, and why are they trustworthy?
by adventured on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:09PM
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Archive.is isn't very important yet. I don't believe they warrant much concern re such questions. It doesn't yet matter very much if they're super trustworthy or not.
At their present scale, going through and manually changing (tampering with) saved content for propaganda (or similar) purposes, would have very little impact. More realistically, it probably has close to zero potential consequential impact. It'd be quite the chore for very little return.
If they become important some day, with dramatically greater scale of usage, then getting answers to these questions might be important.
If they eventually betray trust, they're trivial to replace. Other competing variations of archive.is exist now. It's a relatively easy service to create. Someone should probably challenge them just on the basis of how bad their ui & ux are.
At scale, if they begin abusing their position, it would become well known, they would get a reputation and it'd kill their service. The barrier to competition extremely low.
At their present scale, going through and manually changing (tampering with) saved content for propaganda (or similar) purposes, would have very little impact. More realistically, it probably has close to zero potential consequential impact. It'd be quite the chore for very little return.
If they become important some day, with dramatically greater scale of usage, then getting answers to these questions might be important.
If they eventually betray trust, they're trivial to replace. Other competing variations of archive.is exist now. It's a relatively easy service to create. Someone should probably challenge them just on the basis of how bad their ui & ux are.
At scale, if they begin abusing their position, it would become well known, they would get a reputation and it'd kill their service. The barrier to competition extremely low.