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Cake day: December 2nd, 2024

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  • We sent an email to Archive.today’s contact address and asked two simple questions:

    • Can they remove the illegal content from the URLs we were informed about?
    • Is it true that they refused to remove such content in the past, and had they been notified about it before?

    They replied within a few hours. The response was straightforward: the illegal content would be removed (and we verified that it was), and they had never received any previous notifications about those URLs.

    Moreover, they hinted that Archive.today had been targeted by a campaign of “serial” complaints, supposedly from French organizations, sent to various companies and institutions that could potentially harm the site. They even shared a link demonstrating a complaint similar to the one we had received.

    Seems like a concentrated effort to whitewash the internet by getting rid of the archives. Wasn’t Archive.org target to similar takedown notices recently?







  • Surprising nobody, as in nobody really cares if they are unaware of being spied on. If the utility does what it says on the tin, that’s as far as the thought process goes. They don’t even know these things can be hacked or be part of state surveillance. People that go “hmm… wait it must be connected to the internet?” are really tiny part of the market.

    As people are accustomed to think having the password/account, means one else can have access to it. It never crosses their mind.

    It’s like how much Chinese network devices are prevalent in the market. It kinda does what it says, but also sends your data to the mother ship.

    Authoritarian governments think alike.