* Ars Technica article
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
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The English Wikipedia (Wikipedia) has blacklisted the controversial archive site Archive.today. This is because the site was used for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeting specific blogs.
While discussing whether to stop using Archive.today due to DDoS attacks, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site had arbitrarily altered web page snapshots to insert the name of the blog author who was the target of the attack.
This appears to have been done out of spite by the Archive.today operator, who uses multiple pseudonyms to hide their identity, towards a blogger who wrote an article accusing them.
* Blog post by the blogger who was subjected to DDoS attacks
https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
* Same blog post from 2023 analyzing the operator's identity
https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/
There were over 695,000 links on approximately 400,000 Wikipedia pages that connected to Archive.today. This archive site was primarily used to access paid news articles, and the FBI even issued a warrant to Tucows, the domain registrar, in an attempt to identify the site operator.
The newly released guidelines ask editors to cooperate in removing or replacing links that connect to Archive.today using the following domain names (archive.today, archive.is, archive.ph, archive.fo, archive.li, archive.md, archive.vn).
According to the guidelines, editors can remove Archive.today links if the original source is still online and the content is the same. They can also replace links with those pointing to other archive sites such as the Internet Archive, Ghostarchive, and Megalodon.
* Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/
* Ghostarchive: https://ghostarchive.org/
* Megalodon (Japanese site): https://megalodon.jp/
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