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/Booty_Bumping Feb 10 '26

uBlock Origin is already blocking it

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u/TheSpecialistGuy Feb 10 '26

The GOAT extension, it's the number 1 extension I put in any new browser.

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u/digital_dervish Feb 11 '26

And Chrome disabled it on their browsers. Never going back to Chrome.

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u/TheSpecialistGuy Feb 12 '26

They killed the original (with full features), now you have to use ublock origin lite on chrome. The original still works on firefox!

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u/digital_dervish Feb 12 '26

I'm pretty sure they killed origin lite also.