Yup. This project is cutting off the nose to spite the face. So easily worked around by any scraper, but makes the website worse for actual users. Accessibility is usability.

Rainbow’s End by Vernor Vinge basically predicted this.

That’s not what the person you responded to said.

Archival is vital to society. Intentionally blocking archival should literally be illegal.

Nobody wants it. But im guessing most people don’t know it’s a mandate that people can be fired for, and assume their Starbucks is special.