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The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog.

In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases.

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 14 points 3 hours ago

From Wikipedia

As of 13:27, 19 February 2026 (UTC), the owners are now batch-replacing certain names in archived pages with the real name of the gyrovague.com webmaster as a form of harassment.

The top piece of evidence (not in any special order) was redacted due to "revealing personal information".

Other subsequent pieces of evidence were retained but names were replaced with abbreviations

I have another evidence of tampering: this is a Megalodon archive of a archive.ph archive of a post. The original post is now dead. Patokallio mentions this post in his blog – he would surely mention if the post mentioned him, in the way the archived version does. He quoted the original [N.P.] was a woman[...], while the archive.ph reads Jani Patokallio was a woman[...]

Another example:

Sometime today, Archive.today replaced the name with the equivalent amount of spaces (only where N...'s name used to be). Ironically, "Jani Patokallio" is of the same length as "N...".

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Should I stop using archive.ph then? I mostly used it because it's a lot faster than archive.org, which is a bit clunkier to use.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 28 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

AFAIK archive.is , .ph and .today are all just different domains for the same site.

Yep, also owned by archive.today.

As is archive.is, archive.fo, archive.li, archive.md, and archive.vn.

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Well, for accessing paywalled articles .org is no replacement for .ph/.today, sadly. But it's advisable to use it as little as possible, it seems using visitors for DDoS'ing the blog is still going on.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

GhostArchive came up in discussions.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The problem that web.archive.org and ghostarchive.org both have is that they regularly fail to archive content

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 27 minutes ago

Understandable. Archive.today is really good at getting website content, but their methods are proprietary and a little dubious.

If you just want to save things locally, I believe Single File is really good. It downloads the page that you see on your browser, as you see it.