- They have been found to have been altering the contents of the archived articles.
- They have DDoSed a server using our browsers when we visit their site
- Wikipedia has blacklisted it
- It’s DNS is banned widely
Guidance published … asked editors to help remove and replace links to the following domain names used by the archive site: archive.today, archive.is, archive.ph, archive.fo, archive.li, archive.md, and archive.vn. The guidance says editors can remove Archive.today links when the original source is still online and has identical content;
Recommended alternatives include: Internet Archive Ghostarchive Megalodon
The Wikipedia guidance points out that the Internet Archive and its website, Archive.org, are “uninvolved with and entirely separate from archive.today.” The Internet Archive is a nonprofit based in the US.
It’s a bit sad, because archive.org is unable to capture some websites that archive.is is able to.
So you either get an imperfect host that is able to capture it (with a dubious integrity record), or you have a void where some stuff cannot be archived and you end up with a void.
In these cases I still consider archive.is (etc.) to be better than nothing. Also, the fact that archive.org is based in the USA is a concern. It could be forced to censor or delete content, or even be forcibly shut down.
indeed, there are many blacklisted/non-viewable urls in the wayback machine sadly. and it really doesn’t work well with dynamic js-based paged
As opposed to all the other countries that can’t censor and delete content or shut websites down?
It’s a question of the political climate in the countries. The USA is a bit extreme at the moment.
Compared to?
For many of the people I talk to, that can be assumed. Here, however…
Agreed. Being unable to get important info to people could be a bigger problem which is why I’d probably keep using them.
misinformation is not better than nothing if youre an idiot. dummies and noobs will take the info as fact
I’ve found https://megalodon.jp/ to work similarly. Japanese site, and has some quirks with how large of a page it will archive before only saving a screenshot, but it works.