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Wikipedia may remove nearly 700,000 links after Archive.today DDoS fallout

Summary by Tech Spot
Wikipedia relies heavily on Archive.today because it is more effective than conventional alternatives, such as the Internet Archive. However, the properties that have made Archive.today so useful have also drawn the attention of the FBI, likely because the site circumvents the paywalls of numerous prominent media outlets.Read Entire Article

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A little less than 700,000 links is the number of references to archive.today that Wikipedia is planning to delete at once! And the reason is quite crazy... in fact the archiving service has hidden DDoS code in its CAPTCHA in order to attack the blog of a guy who had the misfortune to look for the identity of the founder of the site. The story is twisted you will see... In 2023, a blogger named Jani Patokallio publishes an article on his blog Gy…

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Tech Spot broke the news in on Thursday, February 12, 2026.
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