Internet Archive Reliability

Discussions focus on archive.org's archival practices, including content removal policies, vulnerability to lawsuits and takedowns, and comparisons to services like archive.is.

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shepherdjerred May 29, 2023 View on HN

That's no worse than just relying on Arhcive.org to be sole provider

tobias2014 Feb 9, 2021 View on HN

Is archive.org then also creeping as a service?

idlewords Oct 15, 2014 View on HN

This is not correct. Archive.org will take things down retroactively when asked.

SirMaster Aug 16, 2023 View on HN

So will archive.org delete them too?

hackernewds Jul 27, 2022 View on HN

which is the point of archive.org - if there were human discretion it would turn into modern day Twitter

kome Sep 6, 2022 View on HN

that's not how an archive should work. but perhaps Internet Archive is not an archive and it doesn't want to be one.

danlitt Aug 5, 2025 View on HN

You need more qualifiers for this to be true. archive.org routinely archives content that the site operators would prefer to be taken down.

bluntfang Aug 28, 2020 View on HN

and archive.org doesn't listen to archivists

83457 Jan 28, 2023 View on HN

Does archive.org scrape data for historic preservation even if they are not allowed to make the content available publicly?

dddavid Nov 27, 2023 View on HN

as long as the internet archive isn't sued into oblivion by various rightsholders / right to be forgotten regs, etc