• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    People use Archive links to avoid giving sites traffic.

    This is a problem for advertisers and media corps.

    Not saying they’re the ones doing this, but they’d definitely benefit.

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      13 hours ago

      I’ve enjoyed using Wayback Machine on journalistic articles where they try to retcon information, but the original copy had already been captured. The Ministry of Truth hates archive.org.

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      1 day ago

      Someone else looked to the group claiming responsibility for this. It’s a pro-Palestinian Russian group

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      Why is this a problem, how would it affect real availability of ads? Except maybe tracking users.