I hope they're donating big chunks of money to the Internet Archive in return for what's likely to bring a ton of extra traffic.
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2024
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Ideally it'd be a check that comes close to what they saved from no longer hosting caches themselves.
INB4 people start using this to claim the internet archive doesn’t care about privacy and is another Firefox
They must be proxying the traffic off of a cached copy. I doubt they'd be sending traffic straight to IA.
I would hope, but I've been burned enough to not assume big companies are doing things the sensible way.