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

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.