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Offloading trash to an already strained organisation. are they donating any help or is it just taking advantage of charity?
by LordShredda 3y ago
Offloading trash to an already strained organisation. are they donating any help or is it just taking advantage of charity?
- Espionage724 3y agoLmao there's no winning with you people :p Don't worry, Wayback is capable of telling CNET where to go if they were really concerned. If anything they should be thankful for the newly-generated interest that a major company would use them instead of some randoms cherry-picking sites for arguments.
- em-bee 3y agoyes, this greatly legitimizes the wayback archive.
- renewiltord 3y agoI didn't know they were strained. Probably best to block them so they don't spend resources on unimportant things. You can find a few UA strings here https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/bot-detail?bot=archive.org_bot https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/bot-detail?bot=archive.o... Ultimately, it looks like they do respect the `archive.org_bot` string so if you want to help the strained organization, probably best to block it as well. You can also save them some space, it appears, by uploading a file on your website asking them not to retain it and then sending an email to them. See https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/128352 https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/128352 For now, I just blocked the bot, but when I have some time maybe I'll ask them to delete the data. Hopefully, with a little community effort we can reduce the strain on them so they can spend their limited resources reasonably.