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Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Google has sucked for a long time. We have the wayback machine anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't even aware they were doing that. Did they share that backup with the public? I guess it makes sense to stop. The internet isn't something special created by passionate people any more. It's a bajillion meaningless social media posts, AI generated articles, news posts, propaganda, and SEO spam. I can see value in keeping the old Internet archives, and stuff like Wikipedia, but most of the internet is quite worthless these days outside of AI scraping and privacy intrusion.