Stephen Judge ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บJun 4
internetarchive

As some publishers block the Wayback Machine, we lose the ability to reliably verify past reporting and track how stories change over time.

๐Ÿ“ฃ Tell news organizations to stop blocking archiving and help preserve journalism for the future; sign the open letter:
โœ๏ธ https://www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

#SaveTheArchive #DigitalArchive #WaybackMachine #TruthMatters @fight

Jun 4 at 5:00amWeb
Show threadcultdevJun 4
@internetarchive @fight in these cases just set a script to auto-archive the archive.ph backups instead. ditto paywalls
Show threadืฉื•ืงื• - ShokoJun 4

@cultdev @internetarchive @fight

Eh..
https://cybernews.com/security/archive-today-launches-ddos-directing-visitors-to-attack-blog/

Show threadsimmacJun 4
@shoko @cultdev @internetarchive @fight yeah, they cannot be trusted unfortunately: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

Ars Technica
Show threadcultdevJun 4
@simmac @shoko @internetarchive @fight well aware, wah wah, tough shit. so the guy running it is a petty prick, whatever. until someone spins up an alternative itโ€™s that or nothing
Show threadFabianใ€ใƒ•ใ‚กใƒ“ใ‚ขใƒณใ€‘๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆJun 4
@internetarchive @fight give us an extension to pull websites and push them to you, while we browse them. ๐ŸŒ…
Show threadRickyxJun 4
@internetarchive @fight the website of my institution is blocking WM.
It makes it more difficult to archive legal and administrative documents โ€“ who on earth would be interested in that?
Technically they are blocking the user agent... my devil side is secretly asking you to have a generic user agent... ๐Ÿ˜ˆ
Show threadConny NaschJun 4
@internetarchive signed, I feel archives are like libraries of the past and must not be touched ๐Ÿค” @fight
Show threadFrank EngelhardJun 4
@internetarchive @fight My wayback machine is my diary:
" January 1979: we are almost living in a sciencefiction book. Who could have thought about a wristwatch-calculator; a tv-homecomputer with programs on cassettetapes for 2000guilders; videorecorders for 2000 guilders; video phones; cars with computers (petrol usage, average speed, distance driven and still to drive) tv-games with programs; calculators for children. "
Show threadHumanBeingJun 4
@internetarchive @fight WayBackMachine is right. When chump was going to rig and win in '16, a company that took images of what the internet looked like at that point-in-time got the hell out of here. They went to Canada because they knew of the littered-lying wasteland it would become (my words, not theirs but they saw what was coming).