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> Why folks continue to use them confuses me. I use them. I haven't ever heard mention that the content is edited. Do you have a source?

uqers 18d ago
See https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-blacklist-archive-today-after-site-maintainer-ddosed-a-blog/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance#Why_are_we_doing_this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...? Besides tampering with content, the site was also using visitors to DDOS a blog that mentioned the owner of archive.today.
- sam_lowry_ 18d ago
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Mogzol 18d ago
See the "Background" section of the Wikipedia RFC on banning archive.today links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment... They bulk replaced one string (a name) with another one across many archived pages, and added malicious code to all archive pages that would rapidly send requests to gyrovague.com in an attempt to DDOS them.
- sam345 18d ago
  Just out of curiosity, how do we know that what is in the Wikipedia comments is accurate? I have no skin in the game. I was just wondering. Anybody can post anything on Wikipedia comments. I find it odd that Ars Technica would use that as a source. Maybe it's fine for gossip and speculation but it shouldn't be in Ars Technica then.
  - fc417fc802 18d ago
    Because a lot of us watched the drama unfold in real time.
    - avadodin 18d ago
      We have always been at war with Eastasia.
  - Mogzol 18d ago
    There is a megalodon.jp archive of an archive.today page that shows the edits: https://megalodon.jp/2026-0219-1654-07/https://archive.ph:443/LZymb https://megalodon.jp/2026-0219-1654-07/https://archive.ph:44... There's also a bunch of previous hackernews discussions about it: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474255 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 And you obviously have no reason to believe me, but I was following this when it was happening at the start of this year and can confirm that the DDoS script and archive text replacements really did happen.

uqers 18d ago

See https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-blacklist-archive-today-after-site-maintainer-ddosed-a-blog/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance#Why_are_we_doing_this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...? Besides tampering with content, the site was also using visitors to DDOS a blog that mentioned the owner of archive.today.

sam_lowry_ 18d ago
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Mogzol 18d ago

See the "Background" section of the Wikipedia RFC on banning archive.today links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment... They bulk replaced one string (a name) with another one across many archived pages, and added malicious code to all archive pages that would rapidly send requests to gyrovague.com in an attempt to DDOS them.

sam345 18d ago
Just out of curiosity, how do we know that what is in the Wikipedia comments is accurate? I have no skin in the game. I was just wondering. Anybody can post anything on Wikipedia comments. I find it odd that Ars Technica would use that as a source. Maybe it's fine for gossip and speculation but it shouldn't be in Ars Technica then.
- fc417fc802 18d ago
  Because a lot of us watched the drama unfold in real time.
  - avadodin 18d ago
    We have always been at war with Eastasia.
- Mogzol 18d ago
  There is a megalodon.jp archive of an archive.today page that shows the edits: https://megalodon.jp/2026-0219-1654-07/https://archive.ph:443/LZymb https://megalodon.jp/2026-0219-1654-07/https://archive.ph:44... There's also a bunch of previous hackernews discussions about it: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474255 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 And you obviously have no reason to believe me, but I was following this when it was happening at the start of this year and can confirm that the DDoS script and archive text replacements really did happen.