That particular archive has a nasty habit of changing the content of saved articles, and then hijacking your browser to launch DDoS attacks on people the secretive owner of the archive doesn’t like.
In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases.
Archive It said she lost her home, job and dog. What a bunch of assholes.
That particular archive has a nasty habit of changing the content of saved articles, and then hijacking your browser to launch DDoS attacks on people the secretive owner of the archive doesn’t like.
It…what??
It’s bad enough that Wikipedia no longer allows linking to pages archived on there, and they’re actively working to replace any links already in use
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance
That’s crazy. I’m gonna have to find a self-hosted paywall hopper. 🙄
Keywords that you can put into your favorite search engine: archive.is ddos.
Damn! Thanks for pointing this out.
Ars Technica article about it
Do you have a source for this? I never ask for sources, but I’m making an exception for this.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
Archive.today is also archive.is and archive.ph. There might be other mirrors i’m unaware of.
Edit: Actually the mirrors are listed on wikipedia. Here they are:
archive.today
archive.fo
archive.is
archive.li
archive.md
archive.ph
archive.vn
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