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WIKIPEDIA BLACKLISTS ARCHIVE.TODAY, STARTS REMOVING 695,000 ARCHIVE LINKS

arstechnica.com3 min read

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English Wikipedia is banning Archive.today after discovering the site used its CAPTCHA to DDoS a critic's blog and secretly altered archived pages to smear him, undermining trust in its snapshots. Editors will replace roughly 695,000 Archive.today links with alternatives like the Internet Archive.