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toomuchtodotoday at 6:45 PM1 replyview on HN

It is. They will most likely eventually need to move to a walled model for Wayback due to scraper aggressiveness (like Reddit deprecating anonymous old.reddit.com), or behind Cloudflare for aggressive bot and scraping protection. Hard to defend against abuse of a public resource when its intent is public access with as little restriction as possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

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ronsortoday at 6:54 PM

Reddit has no excuses for the anonymous old.reddit.com removal; they're simply greedy.

On the other hand, the Internet Archive is a non-profit offering a free public resource.

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