• They have been found to have been altering the contents of the archived articles.
  • They have DDoSed a server using our browsers when we visit their site
  • Wikipedia has blacklisted it
  • It's DNS is banned widely

Guidance published ... asked editors to help remove and replace links to the following domain names used by the archive site: archive.today, archive.is, archive.ph, archive.fo, archive.li, archive.md, and archive.vn. The guidance says editors can remove Archive.today links when the original source is still online and has identical content;

Recommended alternatives include: Internet Archive Ghostarchive Megalodon

The Wikipedia guidance points out that the Internet Archive and its website, Archive.org, are “uninvolved with and entirely separate from archive.today.” The Internet Archive is a nonprofit based in the US.

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[–] 63 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's a bit sad, because archive.org is unable to capture some websites that archive.is is able to.

So you either get an imperfect host that is able to capture it (with a dubious integrity record), or you have a void where some stuff cannot be archived and you end up with a void.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    In these cases I still consider archive.is (etc.) to be better than nothing. Also, the fact that archive.org is based in the USA is a concern. It could be forced to censor or delete content, or even be forcibly shut down.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    As opposed to all the other countries that can't censor and delete content or shut websites down?

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