They already had a big target on their back. Sure, scraping Spotify made that larger, but given that their aims are explicitly political, I think there’s a lot of value in not being overly cautious and using takedowns as a way to bolster the resiliency of your service.
Domain takedowns are inevitable, even if they’d just continued with their existing archival efforts. That’s why, when I found I wasn’t able to access the .org domain over the weekend, I just went to https://annas-archive.se/ instead.
Edit: wrote one of the old domains (.gs) because I just use what’s bookmarked and got mixed up. It was .se that I used
They already had a big target on their back. Sure, scraping Spotify made that larger, but given that their aims are explicitly political, I think there’s a lot of value in not being overly cautious and using takedowns as a way to bolster the resiliency of your service.
Domain takedowns are inevitable, even if they’d just continued with their existing archival efforts. That’s why, when I found I wasn’t able to access the .org domain over the weekend, I just went to https://annas-archive.se/ instead.
Edit: wrote one of the old domains (.gs) because I just use what’s bookmarked and got mixed up. It was .se that I used
.gs is not one of the currently listed domains. Are you sure that’s a real one?
That’s the old one they temporarily switched to that got taken down; the current options are annas-archive.li and annas-archive.gl.
Edit: annas-archive.se, annas-archive.in, and annas-archive.pm also no longer work.