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Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site (arstechnica.com)
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DDoS hit blog that tried to uncover Archive.today founder's identity in 2023. [...] A Tumblr blog post apparently written by the Archive.today founder seems to generally confirm the emails’ veracity, but says the original version threatened to create “a patokallio.gay dating app,” not “a gyrovague.gay dating app.”

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Archive-today-Operator-uses-users-for-DDoS-attack-11171455.html:

By having Archive.today unknowingly let users access the Finnish blogger's URL, their IP addresses are transmitted to him. This could be a point of attack for prosecuting copyright infringements.

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[–] onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

To be fair Wayback Machine is not the only option, there are at least 3 other Internet archival services besides archive.today:

  1. Ghostarchive
  2. Megalodon
  3. Etched (warning: cryptobros)

Unfortunately their scrapers are nearly not as developed as Wayback Machine's and archive.today's are (Ghostarchive and Megalodon can't bypass Anubis/Cloudflare check, for example). Ghostarchive is neat when it works because of very high-fidelity captures (even more high-fidelity than archive.today's captures are), but only something like ~75% of everything I've ever archived there works. Oh, and it can also archive short (<10 min) YouTube videos with low/average bitrate.

Megalodon is pretty much useless for Wikipedia because it doesn't work with, like, half of all online news websites.

I haven't archived anything on Etched yet, but their premise of "archiving a web page forever on bitcoin" doesn't seem attractive so I probably won't use it.

[–] Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Very True, I have had some good use out of ghostarchive. When it works. There's also self-hosted options like archivebox. And Several paid solutions like perma.cc. Kiwix/Zim too although that's focused on wiki's themselves & offline storage/access so not as useful for sources. But yes I've found none get consistantly good archives as much as archive.org or archive.today.

I have not heard of etched, but I do tend to avoid a lot of the crypto stuff.

Its also concerning if any of the archives suddenly going down & the data isn't backed up. I know the storage requirements alone makes good backups unlikely, but with archive.today looking so volitile I wonder if one's going to be needed.

Edit: added links & spelling