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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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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, ESH. His response of editing an archive showed the site to be unreliable as an archive. DDOSing from the site as a counter to the dox attempt caused the site serious reputational harm as well.

It sucks because his site was actually more reliable than The Internet Archive.