- 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.
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