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I wonder how many of them lead to private YouTube videos, Google documents, etc.

by yreg 1y ago

mdaniel 1y ago
I was going to be cheeky and say "well, now you can download them and search" but it seems it's "Access-restricted-item: true" for some reason, above and beyond being 10G a pop <https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_googl_20250228144231_a8e742fa https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_googl_20250228144231...>
- horseradish7k 1y ago
  you'd have to rescrape them all from https://web.archive.org/cdx/search?url=goo.gl/* https://web.archive.org/cdx/search?url=goo.gl/* - they don't publish the whole datasets
  - mdaniel 1y ago
    No, I meant the .warc.zst files on archive.org that were the result of the ArchiveTeam's work. However, it seems they're under some kind of embargo - which is the first I've ever seen a private link on archive.org
    - viliml 1y ago
      Tangentially related but I've seen twitter links that used to be on the wayback machine disappear from it at some point, presumably due to personal request from the owner.
      - corobo 1y ago
        Pretty sure you can nuke all your domains old content by blocking archive.org in robots.txt
    - rafram 1y ago
      I can see some reasonable arguments for not publishing the full dataset. People undoubtedly shortened lots of links to unlisted videos/documents/pages under the assumption that the short link, like the original link, would be unguessable.
      - mdaniel 1y ago
        Then why go to the trouble of archiving them, then upload them to a public archive site, only to then keep them secret? I'm sure pastebin is filled with people's AWS credentials, too, but you don't see them randomly denying access to listings
        rafram 1y ago
        Because then you can access the archived destination if you already know the short URL. You just can't get a full list of potentially sensitive short URL/destination pairs.
        yreg 1y ago
        Yeah what they did is probably the best way to handle it.
        mdaniel 1y ago
        You are aware of which thread you're discussing this in, right? The one where a bunch of like-minded souls enumerated all the address space in a few weeks? The sibling link above that queries Wayback's warc index shows at least the first several are only 6 alnum wide so it's no wonder the ArchiveTeam got them in reasonable time Picking one at random, it seems the super sekrit deets you're safeguarding include buyrussia21.co.kr which, yes, is for sure very, very secret
        brokensegue 1y ago
        i asked them why they did this. the answer surprisingly is because they fear if they release the full dumps they will get blocked because of the AI scraping wars.

I wonder how many of them lead to private YouTube videos, Google documents, etc.

by yreg 1y ago

I wonder how many of them lead to private YouTube videos, Google documents, etc.

I was going to be cheeky and say "well, now you can download them and search" but it seems it's "Access-restricted-item: true" for some reason, above and beyond being 10G a pop <https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_googl_20250228144231_a8e742fa https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_googl_20250228144231...>

horseradish7k 1y ago
you'd have to rescrape them all from https://web.archive.org/cdx/search?url=goo.gl/* https://web.archive.org/cdx/search?url=goo.gl/* - they don't publish the whole datasets
- mdaniel 1y ago
  No, I meant the .warc.zst files on archive.org that were the result of the ArchiveTeam's work. However, it seems they're under some kind of embargo - which is the first I've ever seen a private link on archive.org
  - viliml 1y ago
    Tangentially related but I've seen twitter links that used to be on the wayback machine disappear from it at some point, presumably due to personal request from the owner.
    - corobo 1y ago
      Pretty sure you can nuke all your domains old content by blocking archive.org in robots.txt
  - rafram 1y ago
    I can see some reasonable arguments for not publishing the full dataset. People undoubtedly shortened lots of links to unlisted videos/documents/pages under the assumption that the short link, like the original link, would be unguessable.
    - mdaniel 1y ago
      Then why go to the trouble of archiving them, then upload them to a public archive site, only to then keep them secret? I'm sure pastebin is filled with people's AWS credentials, too, but you don't see them randomly denying access to listings
      - rafram 1y ago
        Because then you can access the archived destination if you already know the short URL. You just can't get a full list of potentially sensitive short URL/destination pairs.
        yreg 1y ago
        Yeah what they did is probably the best way to handle it.
        mdaniel 1y ago
        You are aware of which thread you're discussing this in, right? The one where a bunch of like-minded souls enumerated all the address space in a few weeks? The sibling link above that queries Wayback's warc index shows at least the first several are only 6 alnum wide so it's no wonder the ArchiveTeam got them in reasonable time Picking one at random, it seems the super sekrit deets you're safeguarding include buyrussia21.co.kr which, yes, is for sure very, very secret
        brokensegue 1y ago
        i asked them why they did this. the answer surprisingly is because they fear if they release the full dumps they will get blocked because of the AI scraping wars.