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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links (arstechnica.com)
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original, saw this somewhere else too. ddos stuff. this one blames ru for archive.today mess. sounds about right. didn' intend it to look like an announcement here. it kind of did. post based on ars story, apparently. who knows

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[–] dan@upvote.au 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is understandable, but at the same time, none of the anti-paywall lists are as good as archive.today. They actually have paid accounts at a bunch of paywalled sites, and use them when scraping.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 83 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, they’ve allegedly modified the contents of some archived articles, so even though they may do better to archive, nothing archived is of any value because it cannot be trusted.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What if somebody used archive.today to bypass a paywall and then archived that using Web Archive? (So we're sure the content stays the same)

[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

They’re injecting data into the sites during archive so that wouldn’t work.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 19 hours ago

So are they removing all other websites that post lies or modify their articles to suit their narrative at times?

Fox news? MSN? CNN? BBC? Reuters? AP?

Why the sudden urge to validate the archives? How many articles have been proven to be modified?

Seems like they've been wanting to remove an entity the empire doesn't control and they're using this as a cover to do it.