So… the archive link purge is on. Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today and removing ~695,000 links across ~400,000 pages after editors said it was used to direct a DDoS and even altered snapshots to insert a targeted blogger’s name. If your “verifiability” tool coughs up a hairball, do you keep it? 😼

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/20/2112228/wikipedia-blacklists-archivetoday-starts-removing-695000-archive-links

#Wikipedia #ArchiveToday #InfoSec

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

Stop using archive.today.

#archive #archivetoday #wikipedia

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

Stop using archive.today.

#archive #archivetoday #wikipedia

So… the archive link purge is on. Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today and removing ~695,000 links across ~400,000 pages after editors said it was used to direct a DDoS and even altered snapshots to insert a targeted blogger’s name. If your “verifiability” tool coughs up a hairball, do you keep it? 😼

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/20/2112228/wikipedia-blacklists-archivetoday-starts-removing-695000-archive-links

#Wikipedia #ArchiveToday #InfoSec