Why Major News Sites Are Blocking The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

Major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine to fight AI scrapers — and taking three decades of digital history with ...

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet ...

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

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is one of the web’s most valuable resources, enabling us to access earlier versions ...

Is the internet’s memory at risk? The world's most-used archiving tool is under threat

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which has preserved over a trillion web pages, faces mounting challenges as major ...
The Verge

How the Wayback Machine is trying to solve the web’s growing linkrot problem

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. As more sites collapse and shutter, the internet has increasingly become full of roads to nowhere. As more sites ...

News media launches war against Wayback Machine, the internet’s most trusted archive website

A growing number of major news organisations are restricting the Wayback Machine, citing AI and copyright concerns. But ...

Media organizations are increasingly blocking the Wayback Machine.

An analysis from Originality AI, an AI detection company, found that 23 big news sites block the Internet Archive’s crawler, Wired reports. A USA Today spokesperson told the publication that the move ...
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NYT, USA Today among major news sites blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: Why?

The news sites say they don’t have any issues with the Wayback Machine: their aim is to support a broader effort to block all scraping bots and curb the misuse of crawled content by AI firms.