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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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[โ€“] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's good for you, and it is okay for you to use archive.today personally, as long as you block their DDoSing.

But Wikipedia does not need to bypass paywalls, and they don't require the source to be freely (or easily) viewable to verify the info.

[โ€“] Deebster@infosec.pub 1 points 7 hours ago

I'm still deciding how much I agree or disagree with this. It's true that they do cite books which you often can't read online, but adding information backed up by a paywalled proof feels a bit "trust me bro". E.g. I could find/create a site with an impossibly large paywall and no-one would realistically able to check my sources.