Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
If DDoSing a blog wasn’t bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
TL;DR
- Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today and removing over 695,000 links.
- The decision follows Archive.today's use in a DDoS attack and its maintainer altering archived webpage content.
- Editors discovered Archive.today inserted a blogger's name into snapshots, fueled by a grudge over a post discussing the site's operator aliases.
- Consensus was reached to deprecate Archive.today due to its role in DDoS attacks and content tampering, rendering it unreliable.
- Editors are urged to remove or replace links to Archive.today and its related domains (archive.is, archive.ph, etc.).
- Alternative archival sites like the Internet Archive, Ghostarchive, or Megalodon are suggested replacements.
- The FBI has previously sought information on Archive.today's operator.