Web archiving is troubled: The Internet Archive is under attack constantly, and archive.is/archive.today seems to be on the way towards turning itself and its users into personae non gratae on the web.
Is it now time to turn web archiving into a distributed affair where obtaining the snapshot happens while browsing, and produces a witness statement a la "at this point in time, I observed these responses to those requests", and storing/accessing those becomes decoupled from obtaining them?
chrysn
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2026-02-15 18:51:13 UTC
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2026-02-15 18:51:13 UTCEvent JSON
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