"Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia. Archive.today - which also operates under several other domain names, including archive.is and archive.ph - is perhaps most widely used to access content that's otherwise inaccessible behind paywalls. That also makes it useful as a source for Wikipedia citations."
"However, according to the Wikipedia discussion page about this topic, "There is consensus to immediately deprecate archive.today, and, as soon as practicable, add it to the spam blacklist [...] and to forthwith remove all links to it." (Ars Technica first reported on the decision.) The discussion page says that Archive.today was previously blacklisted in 2013, only to be removed from the blacklist in 2016."
"Why reverse course again? Because, the discussion page says, "Wikipedia should not direct its readers towards a website that hijacks users' computers to run a DDoS attack." Plus, "evidence has been presented that archive.today's operators have altered the content of archived pages, rendering it unreliable." The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in question was allegedly directed at blogger Jani Patokallio."
Wikipedia editors moved to deprecate and remove all links to Archive.today (also operating as archive.is and archive.ph), citing that the site allegedly hijacks users' computers to run DDoS attacks and that operators have altered archived content, making it unreliable. Archive.today has been linked more than 695,000 times and is commonly used to access paywalled material for citations. The service was blacklisted in 2013 and removed from the blacklist in 2016. The alleged DDoS targeted blogger Jani Patokallio via a CAPTCHA page that executed JavaScript sending requests to his blog, increasing his hosting costs. Ownership of Archive.today remains opaque.
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