| Title | Matching Donations at the Internet Archive / Wayback Machine | |
| Date | Friday November 30 2018, @01:48AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the fix-the-fricken-web dept. | ||
An Anonymous Coward writes:
After donating to SoylentNews, my next favorite online charity is archive.org — I use the Wayback Machine to fix old broken links, check books out of their huge online library and listen to the live music archive.
Since I've donated before, I got the once-a-year reminder from them today and this time they have an unnamed donor that is matching donations (don't know for how long). So I sent them twenty-five bucks for a job well done.
Brewster Kahle's pitch is here, https://archive.org/donate/
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We need a Web that’s reliable. That sets the record straight. We need a Web that’s on our side. A Web that’s not creepy, that doesn’t spy on us. So let’s fix the frickin’ Web!When I started this nonprofit 22 years ago, people called me crazy. Collect web pages? Why? Who would want to read a book on a screen?
Did you know, this past year we’ve:
We’ve fixed 1.5 million broken links in Wikipedia using the Wayback Machine?
Journalists have cited the Internet Archive 1200+ times to set the record straight?
Readers have borrowed 4 million books and downloaded 900 million texts with complete reader privacy?
Nearly all of the archive.org pages I visit show 0 trackers with EFF Privacy Badger. Oddly the donation page shows a half dozen, perhaps tied to the various payment options (like credit card logos)? I blocked them all and the page still displayed OK.
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