...On 20 February 2026, English Wikipedia banned links to archive.today, citing the DDoS attack and evidence that archived content was tampered with to insert Patokallio's name.[19] The decision was made despite concerns over maintaining content verifiability[19] while removing and replacing the second-largest archiving service used across the Wikimedia Foundation's projects.[20] The Wikimedia Foundation had stated its readiness to take action regardless of the community verdict.[19][20]
Did AT go beyond that and manipulate any relevant part? That's rather difficult to say now. AT is obviously tampering with evidence, but so is Wikipedia; their admins have heavily redacted their archived Talk pages out of fear one of these pseudonyms might be an actual person, so even what exactly WP accuses AT of is not exactly clear.
Unless you're arguing that the response by archive.today retroactively justifies the behaviour of Jani Patokallio, which would be a bizarre take.
How is that supposed to be a big deal when the one of core services archive.today provides is obviously illegal anyway?
I also think "but they also do that other crime" doesn't help their case.
It's problematic because it's childish and pointlessly degrades the user experience.
>the site has a bad reputation
Not compared to archive.org. archive.is has a much better track record.
Archive.org is awful. It allows site owners and random third parties to edit old archived pages.
Archive.today does not.
At least site owners have the copyright on the pages that Archive.org saves. They can just get the content pulled through DMCA anyway.
Do you actually mean edit or do you just mean delete
Both are problematic, but falsifying a historic record is orders of magnitude worse than deleting one, and conflating them would be extremely dishonest
I suppose if all the users go on the site intentionally wanting to take part in a DDoS, then sure it’s not a botnet. But that’s not reality.