Paramount Deletes Decades of Internet Archives: RIP MTVNews, CMT, Comedy Central

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MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline https://t.co/G7Y9LybWX3
- Variety (@Variety) June 24, 2024
Decades of music journalism have officially been wiped from the internet after parent company Paramount Global pulled the plug on MTV News' website as well as CMT's website. Trying to access the former will only lead to being redirected to

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[swissbeauty23]

the internet isn't fun anymore

[screamingintune]

not just the internet. I can't even play fucking solitaire on windows without an internet connection + ads now or paying for it. it's fucking solitaire!!!

[xdecadentx]

Not having a basic solitaire on Windows is fucking insane. It makes me so angry.

[dustbunny105]

I cannot get over having to see ads while I play solitaire, of all things. And there was something weird going on with their ads a few months back, too, where I'd get a few seconds of a Save the Children ad that appeared to be centered on the genocide in Gaza before it cut off and played an unrelated ad instead. Not sure what that was about but it feels skeevy.

[phililen3]

WHAT?!?!?

[nutmegdealer]

what the fuck! why??

[drownamydrown]

That’s craaaaazyyy. Capitalism sucks.

[supernova804]

This pisses me off so much. My work laptop plays the ads and all, but luckily my home laptop has this glitch that shows the ads first frame and then freezes for a second and skips the ad

[sorryeden]

Solitaire doesn't need to be a commoditized game. Same with Bejeweled.

[my_moloko]

Man, that is some bullshit!!

[m14mouse]

Sometimes, my mom gets so annoyed with the ads when she plays solitaire or any card game. She will get out her 3ds. So, she won't have to deal them.

[skyler_white_yo]

It’s sad that the internet has become commodified, and when you search for something, the top hits are owned by big companies.

Whenever I try to search for local companies if I need something, it always comes up with Agni’s list. I just want somebody nearby that can take down a dead tree in my yard, not sign up for getting spammed by Agni’s list. Plus the companies have to pay to be listed on Angi’s list, which is also bullshit.

*old lady voice* I actually miss the yellow pages.

[therearewords]

Adding 'before:2023' (without apostrophes) makes the search engine slightly less worse.

[anyasicon]

kagi.com is the way (100 searches for free, I believe)

duckduckgo is a bit better than google as a free option though

[aciren95]

Yeah, SEO really killed Google :(

[lisafrank0cean]

for real..