Comment by leonidasv
6 days ago
If they're under an organised defamation campaign, they're not helping themselves by DDoSing someone else's blog and editing archived pages.
6 days ago
If they're under an organised defamation campaign, they're not helping themselves by DDoSing someone else's blog and editing archived pages.
Is that, itself, true or disinformation?
They did edit archived pages. They temporarily did a find/replace on their archive to replace "Nora Puchreiner" (an alias the site operator uses) with "Jani Patokallio" (the name of the blogger who wrote about archive.today's owner). https://megalodon.jp/2026-0219-1634-10/https://archive.ph:44...
They also tampered with their archive for a few of the social media sites (Twitter, Instagram, Blogger) by changing the name of the signed in account to Jani Patokallio. https://megalodon.jp/2026-0220-0320-05/https://archive.is:44...
I think Wikipedia made the right decision, you can't trust an archival service for citations if every time the sysop gets in a row they tamper with their database.
This is so ‘early internet beef’ quaint. What next? Are they going to G-line each other?
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Reminds me of https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reddit-ceo-edits-user...
I've not seen any evidence of them editing archived pages BUT the DDOSing of gyrovague.com is true and still actively taking place. The author of that blog is Finnish leading archive.today to ban all Finnish IPs by giving them endless captcha loops. After solving the first captcha, the page reloads and a javascript snippet appears in the source that attempts to spam gyrovague.com with repeated fetches.
> I've not seen any evidence of them editing archived pages
There is evidence of this in the article you're commenting on.
How do you know that? Did you see it (do you have a Finnish IP?)?
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It was true and visible when reported, yeah.
I've also noticed archive.today injecting suspicious looking ads into archived pages that originally did not have ads.
It's true.
https://archive-is.tumblr.com/post/808911640210866176/people...
it gives them a voice.
And that voice is practically shouting, "I AM UNTRUSTWORTHY".
that is not the worst scream (especially after FBI and Russian trail). better to shout anything than to die in silence
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Or some shrewd sort of tactician.