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by pseudo0 336 days ago
The Internet Archive is significantly less useful because they allow people to exclude their public social media accounts or websites. On a couple occasions I have tried to find a source for old deleted statements using the IA only to find that the data had been scrubbed. Fortunately archive.today still had a copy in one case, but in the other one I was out of luck.
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cobertos 336 days ago
What were you looking for that was prone to scrubbing? Just curious because I have a collection of historical data to go through and don't know what to expect
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pseudo0 336 days ago
In one case it was a personal website, the other was a Twitter account. Both got scrubbed from the IA.

Apparently they will comply with GDPR and DMCA requests, I'm not sure what precise mechanism was used in those cases.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/eut3na/can_i_get_p...

https://www.joshualowcock.com/guide/how-to-delete-your-site-...

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