English Wikipedia bans archive.today

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• Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Archive.today apparently hijacks visitor’s browsers to DDoS a blog that tried to uncover the identity of the archive’s admin. UBlock helps to stop that script.

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Another example why Unlock Origin should be considered essential security software, not just an “ad-block”.

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If a tool is demonstrably indispensable to disable some browsers’ functionality, is it wise for browsers to have that functionality?

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    UBlock helps to stop that script.

    Would that be by default, or do I need to enable something specific

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    • kip@piefed.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      from the blog in question

      On January 21, commit ^bbf70ec (warning: very large) added gyrovague.com to dns-blocklists, used by ad blocking services like uBlock Origin. This is actually beneficial, since if you have an ad blocker installed, the DDOS script’s network requests are now blocked. (It does not stop users from browsing to my blog directly.)

      - https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/

      can’t find anything from a quick look that confirms this list is used by default in ublock though

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    • pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s by default easylist-privacy list is default

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      from what I heard, the default one is enough. Although I haven’t checked it

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    • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know more than what the wiki article linked to. It says UBlock blocks it. It doesn’t say any more than that.

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  • sakuraba@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    makes sense, I didn’t get it when people started saying it but I don’t browse without ublock

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• FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  An archive site that alters content in the archive is worse than worthless.

  The DDoS is just confirmation that the site is actively harmful.

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• CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Deeply saddening. Archive.today was a great resource, and stored a vast repository of human knowledge. As the internet turns to slop, we need sites that preserve the history of the web more than ever, and it’s very disappointing that the team at archive.today has failed us so profoundly in our hour of greatest need.

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  • totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It is not clear to me why archive.today is so important given the continuing existence of archive.org.

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    • Tim_Bisley@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because having one thing is never good. IA goes down then what? Also archive.today captures websites differently which can work in a pinch when IA fails to archive a site.

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    • CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It does more to handle client-side rendering than archive.org, so there are pages that could be rendered by today that were not archivable by org. Also, because of differing usage patterns, it has archives of pages that org didn’t, and even for pages that org does have, at times org doesn’t.

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• csolisr@hub.azkware.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sounds like the kind of deprecation that can be possibly fixed with an automation. And I can see why is Archive Today considered harmful.

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