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1. tiffanyh ◴[16 Oct 24 12:29 UTC] No.41858313[source]▶

I thought Cloudflare was going to provide "Always Online" access to Internet Archive

2. adambb ◴[16 Oct 24 12:40 UTC] No.41858393[source]▶

Other way around! Cloudflare can optionally load your site from IA if it's down.

3. jgrahamc ◴[16 Oct 24 12:40 UTC] No.41858395[source]▶

That is about us using the Internet Archive to show a snapshot of a page from the Internet Archive when the origin server is down.

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4. yabones ◴[16 Oct 24 13:28 UTC] No.41858830[source]▶

Will CF be funding IA for using the service so extensively?

5. imglorp ◴[16 Oct 24 13:55 UTC] No.41859066[source]▶

If that's the case, I hope CF is making a big, periodic, donation to IA for the business value provided.

6. diggan ◴[16 Oct 24 14:17 UTC] No.41859270{3}[source]▶

Ideally, CF would keep track of exactly how many redirects they do to IA, and donate based on the usage. Would be more fair for everyone involved.

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7. joenot443 ◴[16 Oct 24 14:20 UTC] No.41859306{3}[source]▶

My intuition is that there's a mutually beneficial deal hammered out behind the scenes and that CF isn't just eating poor IA's lunch.

8. TZubiri ◴[16 Oct 24 21:58 UTC] No.41864254[source]▶

Do you happen to remember how you learned this? I'm quite skeptical of it.

9. tourmalinetaco ◴[17 Oct 24 04:48 UTC] No.41866498{4}[source]▶

Cloudflare willingly keeps CSAM and animal abuse sites online even when reported, the least they can do is cut IA a fat check every month.

The Internet Archive is back online