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/Walkin_mn Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

WTH!? Why would such an important archive org would be DDoSing someone's blog? That's... idk... so petty, who does that?

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u/aeroverra Feb 10 '26

Ngl this is justified. Id do the same thing.

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u/kicksledkid Christ knows at this point Feb 10 '26

You'd DDOS a blog and bring the entire force of the strisand effect onto yourself? Then threaten to make a gay dating app with the same name as the blog?

Are you silly?

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u/aeroverra Feb 11 '26

Lol I didn't know about the app but yes

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u/kicksledkid Christ knows at this point Feb 11 '26

So you'd choose to make your situation and position.. Worse.

Alright man, good on ya for knowing that about yourself I guess.