"There is consensus to immediately deprecate archive.today, and, as soon as practicable, add it to the spam blacklist (or create an edit filter that blocks adding new links), and remove all links to it. There is a strong consensus that Wikipedia should not direct its readers towards a website that hijacks users' computers to run a DDoS attack (see WP:ELNO#3). Additionally, evidence has been presented that archive.today's operators have altered the content of archived pages, rendering it unreliable."
"Those in favor of maintaining the status quo rested their arguments primarily on the utility of archive.today for verifiability. However, an analysis of existing links has shown that most of its uses can be replaced. Several editors started to work out implementation details during this RfC [request for comment] and the community should figure out how to efficiently remove links to archive.today."
English-language Wikipedia blacklisted Archive.today after the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger. Editors discovered that Archive.today altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the targeted blogger, apparently motivated by a grudge over a post revealing the maintainer's aliases. Wikipedia editors reached consensus to deprecate Archive.today, add it to the spam blacklist or create an edit filter, and remove all links. More than 695,000 Archive.today links appear across roughly 400,000 Wikipedia pages. The archive site faces an FBI investigation and is commonly used to bypass paywalls.
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