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longislandguido | on: Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2
Breach of trust by a site whose unstated primary purpose is bypassing paywalls and ripping off content?

20 years ago during the P2P heyday this was assumed to come with the territory. Play with fire and you could get burned.

If you walk into a seedy brothel in the developing world, your first thought should be "I might get drugged and robbed here" and not what you're going to type in the Yelp review later about their lack of ethics.

bawolff | parent | next
Well if we are going to use this analogy, 20 years ago virus scanners also flagged malicious stuff from p2p as a virus, and people still thought putting malicious content on p2p was a shitty thing for someone to do (even if it was somewhat expected).

Nobody was shedding any tears 20 years ago for the virus makers who had their viruses flagged by virus scanners.

kay_o | parent | next
Given they are retroactively tampering with past archives it's not exactly trustworhy in the first place
JasonADrury | root | parent | next
Are they tampering with the actual content, or the stuff (login ui, etc) which they have always been open about tampering with?
vachina | root | parent
Proof?
Hamuko | root | parent
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...
flexagoon | root | parent
That doesn't say anything about them tapering with archive content
frenchtoast8 | root | parent
Yes it does. The last section of the article.

https://megalodon.jp/2026-0219-1634-10/https://archive.ph:44...

This is an archive of an Archive.is archive of a blog post. The first sentence of the post says “ Jani Patokallio was a woman of exceptional intellect…” This was changed, it originally had someone else’s name (see second paragraph). So, who knows what other archived pages were changed?

Nuzzerino | parent
I always thought that mainstream media sites with paywalls were pretty far down there in the tier list of websites though. Not sure if this analogy lands unless irony was the goal.
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