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I think the fact they are known to have changed the content of archived pages is way worse than the DDoS incident, since it makes them untrustworthy even as a s

by p91paul 26d ago

I think the fact they are known to have changed the content of archived pages is way worse than the DDoS incident, since it makes them untrustworthy even as a source of information. Wikipedia decided to ban all archive.today (and aliases) links because of that

vachina 26d ago
Do you have an example of such cases happening?
- p91paul 25d ago
  this is from the wikipedia discussion that led to the decision of banning it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5#Evidence_of_altering_snapshots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment...
  - mitxela 25d ago
    Justifiable. Just because Wikipedia has extremely strict standards doesn't mean it isn't useful for the rest of us.