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This collaboration with Google underscores the importance of web archiving and expands the reach of the Wayback Machine, making it even easier for users to access and explore archived content.

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 112 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I hope they're donating big chunks of money to the Internet Archive in return for what's likely to bring a ton of extra traffic.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 2 months ago

Ideally it'd be a check that comes close to what they saved from no longer hosting caches themselves.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 2 months ago

INB4 people start using this to claim the internet archive doesn’t care about privacy and is another Firefox

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They must be proxying the traffic off of a cached copy. I doubt they'd be sending traffic straight to IA.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

I would hope, but I've been burned enough to not assume big companies are doing things the sensible way.