TechCrunch: Russian authorities block paywall removal site Archive.today. “Paywall bypass website Archive.today and several of its associated domains (including .is and .ph) have been blocked by Russian authorities, according to error pages that appeared when loading its websites. The pages appear blocked as of Monday when TechCrunch visited the websites from the U.S. East Coast. “
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/24/techcrunch-russian-authorities-block-paywall-removal-site-archive-today/"There is consensus to immediately deprecate archive.today, and, as soon as practicable, add it to the spam blacklist (or create an edit filter that blocks adding new links) and remove all links to it. There is a strong consensus that Wikipedia should not direct its readers towards a website that hijacks users' computers to run a DDoS attack"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance#Why_are_we_doing_this?








