Archive.today ' which also operates under several other domain names, including archive.is and archive.ph ' is perhaps most widely used to access content that's otherwise inaccessible behind paywalls. That also makes it useful as a source for Wikipedia citations. However, according to the Wikipedia discussion page about this topic, 'There is consensus to immediately deprecate archive.today, and, as soon as practicable, add it to the spam blacklist ['] and to forthwith remove all links to it.' (Ars Technica first reported on the decision.) Why reverse course again' Because, the discussion page says, 'Wikipedia should not direct its readers towards a website that hijacks users' computers to run a DDoS attack.' Plus, 'evidence has been presented that archive.today's operators have altered the content of archived pages, rendering it unreliable.' The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in question was allegedly directed at blogger Jani Patokallio. Patokallio wrote that beginning...
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