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    3 months ago

    Again, isn’t that the site’s prerogative?

    I think there should at least be a recognized way to opt-out that archive.org actually follows. For years they told people to put

    User-agent: ia_archiver
    Disallow:
    

    in robots.txt, but they still archived content from those sites. They refuse to publish what IP addresses they pull content down from, but that would be a trivial thing to do. They refuse to use a UserAgent that you can filter on.

    If you want to be a library, be open and honest about it. There’s no need to sneak around.