- 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.
This sentence does some heavy lifting:
The niche filled by archive.is is for bypassing paywalls, which is the only reason not to use the internet archive’s wayback machine in the first place.
The only reason the operator of archive.is can get away with all his abuses is because most of the world can’t or won’t pay to have access to information required to be part of the global discussion.