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Best practice wrt links and archive.org (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I notice that the URL field suggests replacing links with archive.org etc, and I'm wondering if anyone has context on that design choice or suggested best practice.

The most obvious use-case, I imagine, is to perhaps link to problematic sources without indirectly supporting them?

Although, I also wondered if instead was to be more resistant to link-rot, but in that case, I'd worry about depriving "good" sites of support. Not to mention increasing the fallout if one of those archival sites goes down, so I guess this most likely isn't the motivation, but wanted to check.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If it is an individual's blog, direct link. If it is a news site that has a paywall, cookie popups, or other annoyances, I share the archive.org or .pH link.