Since I still see people sharing and recommending archive.is (archive.today) links, perhaps it is relevant to note that:
- the service DDoSed a blog using the readers' browsers
- and was caught changing the articles it "archived"
- Wikipedia blocklisted it earlier this year
- it is DNS banned widely, preventing access
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
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