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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links (arstechnica.com)
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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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[-] Gork@sopuli.xyz 41 points 1 month ago

Should I stop using archive.ph then? I mostly used it because it's a lot faster than archive.org, which is a bit clunkier to use.

[-] Hubi@feddit.org 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

AFAIK archive.is , .ph and .today are all just different domains for the same site.

[-] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 28 points 1 month ago

Yep, also owned by archive.today.

As is archive.is, archive.fo, archive.li, archive.md, and archive.vn.

[-] antonim@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Well, for accessing paywalled articles .org is no replacement for .ph/.today, sadly. But it's advisable to use it as little as possible, it seems using visitors for DDoS'ing the blog is still going on.

[-] XLE@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago

GhostArchive came up in discussions.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 month ago

The problem that web.archive.org and ghostarchive.org both have is that they regularly fail to archive content

[-] XLE@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago

Understandable. Archive.today is really good at getting website content, but their methods are proprietary and a little dubious.

If you just want to save things locally, I believe Single File is really good. It downloads the page that you see on your browser, as you see it.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Also, as the name indicates, it downloads the page as a single file. Obviously, it doesn't help for archiving the page for other people, though.

[-] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Couldn't you host it somewhere yourself? I guess there's a question of trust there, but trust is the reason Wikipedia has decided to stop using archive.today

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I would probably use the Wayback Machine for that. You can give it the page's address and tell it to make a copy.

[-] XLE@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

The Wayback machine is good, but it has limitations archive.today subverted. That's why people are looking for alternatives specifically to the latter

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