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Wikipedia Removes Archive.today Links After Malicious Code

Wikipedia is removing over 695,000 Archive.today links after the site inserted malicious code to launch a DDoS attack and altered archived content, undermining reliability.

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Wikipedia's English-language edition has decided to remove all links to Archive.today, an archiving service that has been cited more than 695,000 times across approximately 400,000 Wikipedia pages. The site operates under multiple domain names.

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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack

Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia.

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