Google will no longer allow public access to its caches. I doubt they’ve stopped keeping caches for their own use.
The really bad thing is that it’s only a matter of time before the Internet Archive is sued into oblivion. People are uploading full copyrighted movies and there’s no moderation at all. It’s not just cacheing that is at risk here either.
Amongst other things, the Internet Archive is the home of the Prelinger Archives, the largest collection of educational, industrial and other ephemeral films from the silent era on. If the IA goes down, the only place to access those would be commercial outlets like YouTube.
And it will be a real shame.
its a shame its so large that no one has the money to clone it to their own servers (that i know of)
2/2/2024
That article is from February.
Is that the UK or US date format?
The Slovenian one.
That’s fine, I don’t trust Google anyways. Any real backing up or archiving of internet culture can’t be done for profit or it will be shut down when not profitable or enshitified.
