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Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content (en.wikipedia.org)
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After the website archive.today launched a DDoS campaign against a small blog in January 2026, a request for comment was started. After the discovery of tampered archives, consensus was reached to deprecate the site used almost 700 thousand times on the English Wikipedia.

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[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 8 points 2 hours ago

Pepperage Farm remembers when Wikipedia was mass transitioning citations to archive sites because the original sites couldn't be trusted to retain the information over time.

Oh how the turn tables.