Comment by kragen
3 hours ago
Disappointing but not that surprising; it's been banned from Wikipedia for months because it was enlisting viewers' computers in a DDoS against an investigative journalist for trying to figure out who was behind it. But it's the only way I've found to access a lot of information that is otherwise lost. So, what do we do?
> investigative journalist
I think there is a confusion of blogger with a registered journalist, who must follow journalist's (ethic) rules.
for anyone interested, here's a writeup of the DDoS story: https://web.archive.org/web/20260203073744/https://gyrovague...
Weren't they also caught modifying their "archived" content?
That's been my nagging fear about them too. Obviously it's not an option they'd want to exercise frequently, but it could be devastating to individual targets.
(ofc this is a risk with the Wayback Machine, who also has a policy for honoring takedown request. But the Internet Archive's board and executives are known people with reputations)
On modifying bits, see perhaps this comment from a discussion ~8 months ago:
* https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...
Hm, someone in the first thread mentioned a Reddit cofounder did something like this too
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You keep using it as normal and if it tells you to copy and paste commands into your terminal you DO NOT do it?
tbh yeah, this isn't my first time visiting a sketchy website and won't be my last