Re:The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack
by account42 on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @02:14AM
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Heck IA will even temporarily IP-block you just for loading an archived page with too many images. It's a very useful resource but often also very painful to use.
Re:The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack
by theshrike79 on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @03:08AM
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Even if you're logged in?
Plus for as great of a service as Wayback Machine is, it can be very unpleasant to actually browse. I dislike how it injects its own toolbar into every page (yes I know how to massage the URLs to get the raw page data, but it isn't browsable that way). Have you never encountered sites in Wayback Machine where certain pages were just randomly not archived? Or when you click a link and get a page from years earlier or later than the one you came from? Never encountered a page or an entire domain that was blocked from Wayback Machine? Why do you think I would get started doing something like this in the first place if I didn't find it more fun to browse my own archives than Somebody Else's?