Archive Reviews

Total Abomination

Internet Archive is nothing but a utterly garbage It filled with slow and bugginess Do you realize how fixed this website after donations They re fixed nothing Such a disgrace of the website

I ve tried watching three Fassbinder

I ve tried watching several Fassbinder films on IA On each separate occasion the video s stopped playing midway through and wouldn t start playing again despite refreshing the page closing and restarting the browser clearing cache etc etc Pretty annoying to be left hanging an hour or more into a film My network is 3-5mbps I realize that IA is free but do expect the likely possibility that you might waste a fair amount of time trying to wrangle a video with Internet Archive The please donate window to help keep us going is insulting If the site worked as it should one might be more inclined to help out monetarily As it stands I ve spent my time which is quite valuable to me trying to figure get a video to resume playing In another world IA would owe me money

exclusion tedious waste of resources for NOROBOTS sites

Have to ask several times to exclude a norobots-site from crawling Should not crawl norobots-sites anyways Useful for large public sites but a waste of resources for private sites that still get crawled if you do not request several times to exclude them from crawling

they claim before able to shared book

they claim before able to shared book now none asking remove the to your account for uploaders asking donate you copy right they making millions dollars making US corp books wiley digital company to put the stock makers greedy billioners now become scribd and internet archive lost never donate any

Have given up trying to download pdfs

The info on how to access and especially download books is useless and as usual with all IT-related matters assumes knowledge the general public does not have I cannot download pdfs as they come up as an acsm file which my Adobe says it cannot open I ve given up and am going to delete my membership if can I find it demoralising that so many resources are devoted to accumulating this knowledge and so little thought is given to would-be users

This page organisation is absolute

This page organisation is absolute joke Why would you have a biggest library if you can t control speed trafic and almost everything is unaccessible Also what is the point of donation if you won t get any privilege To watch 1h30min video it takes 4 hours Because you don t get a decent speet to buffer video even if you stop it for a while Eventually you lost your plot and just switch it off Very disappointed

HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO ACESS THIS SITE FOR

HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO ACESS THIS SITE FOR 2 WEEKS THEY HAVE ZERO BACKUP INFORMATION OR ANY INTEREST IN RECTIFYING THE PROBLEM WORKED BRIEFLY THEN FAILED AGAIN THEY KEEP TELLING ME ITS MY BROWSER THEY ARE TRUELY AWFUL

Useless Machine

I make a lot of research on the internet and I often use Archive org But almost every time I use the Way Back Machine I get disappointed Mostly I see this message Hrm The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL This page is not available on the webbecause of server error The stored websites are missing so much I almost never can see the pictures and if I can see the pictures it is often just the thumbnail and a lot of links are broken It should not be a difficult task to grab images I will look for another alternative

Hypocritical Company

They claim to be non-profit Why are they having the ability for users to donate money then So much for non-profit when money is being made regardless They claim their goal is universal access to all knowledge Why are they doing copyright strikes on accounts uploading content illegally then So much for access to all knowledge when illegal content gets removed They claim to be open-source Why are they making it hard to access books and videos then So much for open-source All of these things and their lack of letting users delete their own media are why I am not supporting Internet Archive anymore It used to be better when users were allowed to delete their own media But now it s become a hypocritical company with lies and giving users less power to control their uploads I would not recommend this site to pirates journalists exposing government documents illegally and people wanting full power over their uploads Internet Archive s administrators are deleting uploads that expose corrupt governments without uploaders permission So Internet Archive is not a safe haven for journalists who expose war crimes billionaires cause for the New World Order Which is why journalists are having to use the dark web for uploading their content that exposes war crimes At least Internet Archive does not have C P But saying their goal is access to all knowledge is a lie Otherwise uploaders would be allowed to upload C P Which would be disgusting

The Internet Archive is a Copyright Thief and Pirate

The Internet Archive is engaging in copyright theft and piracy What it does is scrape people s websites without permission as part of its fake mission statement of archiving the web when what it s doing is allowing visitors to bypass paywalls and other locks on content For example if you Google how to get around paywalls the Internet Archive comes up as one of the top solutions So if you decide to put up a paywall to help pay the bills all your visitors have to do is visit the archived version of your website When you contact the IA to get your content off the site it sends you a very intimidating email demanding that you hand over as much private information as possible including photo ID and receipts from your domain registrar This makes absolutely no sense as if a website is live and being updated currently there is no legal basis for the Archive to demand name rank and serial number to remove it The point is that the Internet Archive is not archiving anything it s just engaging in copyright theft and content scraping and asking for donations from unsuspecting dupes who don t realize that they re helping the IA scrape and host pirated content