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What is Verizon’s motivation for taking steps to prevent it?

GDPR, CCPA, <insert other regulation>, all are possible reasons to throw their hands in the air rather than do the work / endure the possible risk.

Very possibly the timing isn’t a coincidence, being CCPA is about to take effect.

I don’t know why your comment was downvoted. Very legitimate reason.

Cost savings, plain and simple. Less bandwidth, fewer servers.

That only explains a decision to take them down ITFP. What can be gained by shredding all that information? Maybe they aren't shredding it. Maybe they just want no publically available copies to exist.

Less disk space being used maybe?

It explains both. Blocking archiving will save a bunch of bandwidth as well as not having to scale up the servers for the load of dealing with the archiving.

Yes. The archiving was starting to take a lot of bandwidth. Some care had to be taken not to bog down Yahoo's servers.

I'll give you that. I wasn't thinking of a load spike, just that of the perpetually continued service.

But it doesn't excuse much. Capt. Obvious says, "it's temporary, it could have been anticipated, 'protecting' their datacenters from the load in exactly this way will almost certainly be interpreted as ill will, there are options not being taken such as throttling or even voluntarily sending it all to archive.org"

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