Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

Image of the Wikipedia Home Page on January 14, 2022. Image credit: EWilson (WMF) – Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 (black border added). Article by Jon Brodkin. . Ars Technica – February 20, 2026.

The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. 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. […]

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