I clicked that link and I don't see anything wrong with that. It's not like I donate money by doing that. And they still are very useful resource, even if they're not good enough for Wikipedia (if they indeed tampered with some old archives, it's pretty obvious why)
Thank you for the heads up! DDOS attacks are pretty concerning, but even more concerning is the potential alteration of content. Diabolical. That said, journalism needs funding more than ever, please if you can, try your best to pay for it.
If you would open the second link provided you would get an answer.
>This decision was agreed on after a request for comment with more than 200 participants concluded in February 2026, and is due to multiple concerns, including the site using editors' and readers' computers to run a denial-of-service attack and evidence that the website has tampered with some archived pages
They recommend archive.org instead but archive.org's version of that article gets masked by an error page preventing you from reading it where the archive.is link works fine.
So there isn't a choice here if you actually want to see the article (without subscribing to the atlantic).
How about Archive Buttons? [0]
I don't know what's going on behind those 5 buttons, but this was the first, and who knows?
[0] https://www.archivebuttons.com/articles?article=https://www....
Don’t click that link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...
I clicked that link and I don't see anything wrong with that. It's not like I donate money by doing that. And they still are very useful resource, even if they're not good enough for Wikipedia (if they indeed tampered with some old archives, it's pretty obvious why)
Thank you for the heads up! DDOS attacks are pretty concerning, but even more concerning is the potential alteration of content. Diabolical. That said, journalism needs funding more than ever, please if you can, try your best to pay for it.
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Why is it obvious why they tampered with old archives? Why did they tamper with old archives?
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Maybe not, but it could be using your browser as a part of a DDoS network. The admins have also been tampering with archived articles.
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If you would open the second link provided you would get an answer.
>This decision was agreed on after a request for comment with more than 200 participants concluded in February 2026, and is due to multiple concerns, including the site using editors' and readers' computers to run a denial-of-service attack and evidence that the website has tampered with some archived pages
Alternate take: you can click that link. We are not on Wikipedia and the OP isn't a link to Wikipedia.
They recommend archive.org instead but archive.org's version of that article gets masked by an error page preventing you from reading it where the archive.is link works fine.
So there isn't a choice here if you actually want to see the article (without subscribing to the atlantic).
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I was wondering what was the angle of thede sites.