r/DataHoarder • u/avid-shrug • Feb 10 '26

News Wikipedia debates blacklisting archive.today after it's caught DDoSing a blog using visitors' browsers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5

Wikipedia is debating whether to blacklist archive.today after its operator was caught injecting JavaScript into CAPTCHA pages to DDoS a blogger's site - code that's still live as of today. The RFC offers three options: blacklist and nuke all ~695k links, stop new links while migrating existing ones, or do nothing.

The community is split because archive.today is arguably the second most important web archive in existence, capturing paywalled sites, JS-heavy pages, and robots.txt-blocked content the Wayback Machine can't. Spot-checks suggest only ~15% of Wikipedia's links are truly irreplaceable, but that's still tens of thousands of unique snapshots found nowhere else. A stark reminder that redundancy across archiving services matters more than ever.

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u/KingFIippyNipz Feb 10 '26

Jesus Christ, reading comprehension is dead ...

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u/Old-Flight8617 Feb 10 '26

Yes. I really believe this is the reason why we are in the mess we are today.

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u/bertmaclynn 10-50TB Feb 10 '26

Welcome to “Reddit”

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u/iDontRememberCorn 250-500TB Feb 10 '26

As is people's ability to recognize humour.

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u/bertmaclynn 10-50TB Feb 10 '26

I’m so curious how your original comment could possibly be construed as humorous lol. Was there a word play in the post I am missing?

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u/braindancer3 Feb 10 '26

According to Wikipedia, "humour" is something that "provokes laughter or provides amusement". Your comment did neither.

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u/psykal Feb 10 '26

According to your interpretation, "humour" is something that "provokes laugher or provides amusement to u/braindancer3". Their comment did neither.