Comment by huslage
1 day ago
What exactly is credible about archive.today if they are willing to change the archive to meet some desire of the leadership? That's not credible in the least.
1 day ago
What exactly is credible about archive.today if they are willing to change the archive to meet some desire of the leadership? That's not credible in the least.
A lot more credible than archive.org that lets archives be changed and deleted by the archive targets.
What's your better idea?
Does archive.org really let its archives be changed? That's very different than letting them be deleted from a credibility perspective.
Yes.
Archive.org snapshots may load javascript from external sites, where the original page had loaded them. That script can change anything on the page. Most often, the domain is expired and hijacked by a parking company, so it just replaces the whole page with ads.
Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20140701040026/http://echo.msk.r...
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And another example: https://web.archive.org/web/20260219005158/https://time.is/
The page "got changed" every second. It is easy to make an archived page which would show different content depending on current time or whether you have Mac or Windows, or your locale, or browser fingerpring, or been tailored for you personally
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> the archive targets
Isn't there a substantial overlap with the copyright holders?
Overlap?