Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 9 months agoGoogle will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are deadarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1163arrow-down10 cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1163arrow-down1external-linkGoogle will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are deadarstechnica.comPete Hahnloser@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square35fedilink cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareciferecaNinjo@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoBingo. When I read that part of the article, I felt insulted. People see the web getting increasingly enshitified and less accessible. The increased need for cached pages has justified the existence of 12ft.io. ~40% of my web access is now dependant on archive.org and 12ft.io. So yes, Google is obviously bullshitting. Clearly there is a real reason for nixing cached pages and Google is concealing that reason.
Bingo. When I read that part of the article, I felt insulted. People see the web getting increasingly enshitified and less accessible. The increased need for cached pages has justified the existence of 12ft.io.
~40% of my web access is now dependant on archive.org and 12ft.io.
So yes, Google is obviously bullshitting. Clearly there is a real reason for nixing cached pages and Google is concealing that reason.