• hamFoilHat@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    It is my understanding that if you block the wayback machine from indexing your site it will also delist the history as well.

    • Jason2357@lemmy.ca
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      11 hours ago

      They do archive sites against the owners wishes when they consider it an important site for public archiving, like some news sites. They are in no obligation to delete the archives and hope they don’t.

      • tal@lemmy.today
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        8 hours ago

        Parties have archived the data from pushshift, which cover a lot of Reddit history.

        kagis

        https://academictorrents.com/details/1614740ac8c94505e4ecb9d88be8bed7b6afddd4

        Subreddit comments/submissions 2005-06 to 2024-12

        This is the top 40,000 subreddits from reddit’s history in separate files. You can use your torrent client to only download the subreddit’s you’re interested in.

        I mean, that won’t have the past half year or some low-traffic subreddits, but…

    • Natanael@infosec.pub
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      8 hours ago

      The ability to block crawling is separate from the ability to delist old pages. The latter usually happens after domains change owners