| ▲ | normie3000 3 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
> Why folks continue to use them confuses me. I use them. I haven't ever heard mention that the content is edited. Do you have a source? | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | uqers 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
See https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...? Besides tampering with content, the site was also using visitors to DDOS a blog that mentioned the owner of archive.today. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Mogzol 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
See the "Background" section of the Wikipedia RFC on banning archive.today links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment... They bulk replaced one string (a name) with another one across many archived pages, and added malicious code to all archive pages that would rapidly send requests to gyrovague.com in an attempt to DDOS them. | |||||||||||||||||
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