Not dead, just non-public.
AIs are hungry, the value of stored shitposts skyrocketed.
There’s ways to rate limit, like increasing response time per IP address per hour to make rapid, massed requests slower and easier to handle. Taking them all down at once is an extreme move.
google be like stop bypassing paywalls and ads using our cache
Wait, how does Google make money off of paywalled contents?
Google “Search Liaison” Danny Sullivan confirmed the feature removal in an X post, saying the feature “was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.”
okay but… has it? this seems like an unfounded premise, intuitively speaking
Yea I’ve been using it more and more recently, although part of that is sites like Twitter or Reddit randomly hiding content
Never seemed feasible to begin with.
