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Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine under severe threat by publisher blocks

Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine under severe threat by publisher blocks
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The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is one of the web’s most valuable resources, enabling us to access earlier versions of webpages and websites. It performs an invaluable role in preserving information that would otherwise be lost when websites go offline, as well as providing a practical tool to track updates made to a web page.

However, the organization says that it is now under severe threat thanks to media organizations blocking access to the archive’s web crawler – despite those same

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