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> Too bad. It was a great complement to the increasingly unreliable IA, whose list of blacklisted websites just keeps skyrocketing for opaque reasons This coul
by A_D_E_P_T 2y ago
> Too bad. It was a great complement to the increasingly unreliable IA, whose list of blacklisted websites just keeps skyrocketing for opaque reasons
This could be due to site owners contacting the IA and requesting their site be permanently removed from the archive. It's not as easy as pressing a button, but it's not difficult to have your site removed.
I don't think that the IA itself makes editorial decisions as to which sites to include and which to blacklist. It's more likely that the blacklist is a voluntary opt-in thing...
- account42 2y ago> I don't think that the IA itself makes editorial decisions as to which sites to include and which to blacklist. They do: https://archive.org/post/1126216/kiwi-farms-removed-from-wayback-machine-why https://archive.org/post/1126216/kiwi-farms-removed-from-way...