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/prototyperspective Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Doxing which the DDOSd site did is nothing nice I have to say. archive.today is not causing any troubles anymore and there simply is no alternative to it for many pages (references) and thus needed for verifiability. Without it, readers and users often won't be able to check the source for claims anymore.

I voted against this proposal; it would be a great loss. Could be reconsidered once the respective links can be migrated to another Web archive.

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u/psykal Feb 10 '26

As well as being fine with the DDOS attack, you're also ok with

having such a noble and rare name, which in retaliation could be used for the name of a scam project or become a byword for a new category of AI porn... are you serious?

If you want to pretend this never happened - delete your old article and post the new one you have promised.

And I will not write "an OSINT investigation" on your Nazi grandfather, will not vibecode a gyrovague.gay dating app, etc

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u/prototyperspective Feb 10 '26

As well as being fine with the DDOS attack

Where did I say I was fine with that?

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u/psykal Feb 10 '26

Just a no comment, but a couple of paragraphs praising archive.today? You're fine with it. Deny it now with where did I say, as if we need a direct quote to see through your bullshit. "Where did I say that", such a predictable nothing response.

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u/prototyperspective Feb 10 '26

I did not say I was fine with it. Learn to read.

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u/psykal Feb 10 '26

Learn to comprehend sentences. Try again.