Sunday, February 22, 2026

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack

Recommendable! An interesting article!

"Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia.

Archive.today — which also operates under several other domain names, including archive.is and archive.ph — is perhaps most widely used to access content that’s otherwise inaccessible behind paywalls. That also makes it useful as a source for Wikipedia citations. ...

“Wikipedia should not direct its readers towards a website that hijacks users’ computers to run a DDoS attack.” Plus, “evidence has been presented that archive.today’s operators have altered the content of archived pages, rendering it unreliable.” ..."

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack | TechCrunch

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