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Yikes. Bad news for journalists, who used to be able to tell — at a glance — what a recently changed or deleted webpage looked like. This will make it much easier for bad guys to memory hole inconvenient facts online. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are deadarstechnica.com Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.
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It is probably a response to a particular search poisoning attack occurring recently where someone steals a site’s content, altering it slightly, and sets up thousands of domain names pointing at the stolen content. If they cached them all …
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Archive.org and other archive / snapshot services will need a better fiscal support model
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The enshittening of the useful part of Google's business model continues apace.
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I'm guessing that's not an unintended consequence