--- title: Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today Following Alleged... description: Wikipedia has blacklisted Archive.today (also known as archive.is and archive.ph), affecting over 695,000 links across roughly 400,000 pages. The decision... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/wikipedia-blacklists-archive-today-following-alleged-ddos-attack-and-link-tampering-www8wr5cn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today Following Alleged DDoS Attack and Link Tampering | daily.dev og:description: Wikipedia has blacklisted Archive.today (also known as archive.is and archive.ph), affecting over 695,000 links across roughly 400,000 pages. The decision... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/wikipedia-blacklists-archive-today-following-alleged-ddos-attack-and-link-tampering-www8wr5cn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WWW8wR5cn.png og:image:alt: Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today Following Alleged DDoS Attack and Link Tampering og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today Following Alleged DDoS Attack and Link Tampering **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Wikipedia has blacklisted Archive.today (also known as archive.is and archive.ph), affecting over 695,000 links across roughly 400,000 pages. The decision follows allegations that Archive.today's CAPTCHA page was weaponized to conduct a DDoS attack against blogger Jani Patokallio via embedded JavaScript, and that archived page snapshots were tampered with to include his name. The apparent motivation was retaliation for Patokallio exposing the site maintainer's aliases. The site's owner reportedly acknowledged intent to 'scale down the DDoS.' Editors are now replacing affected links with alternatives like the Wayback Machine, Ghostarchive, and Megalodon. Archive.today has a history with Wikipedia's blacklist, having been added in 2013 and removed in 2016. ## Content # Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today Following Alleged DDoS Attack and Link Tampering Wikipedia editors have recently made the decision to blacklist Archive.today, also known under other domain names such as archive.is and archive.ph. This decision impacts over 695,000 links across approximately 400,000 Wikipedia pages, which used the web archiving service. The move to blacklist the archive site comes after allegations surfaced that Archive.today's CAPTCHA page facilitated a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack against a blogger named Jani Patokallio. The attack reportedly involved the use of JavaScript that quietly executed requests to flood the blogger's website. Additionally, there is evidence that Archive.today's archived page snapshots were manipulated to include Patokallio's name, raising concerns about the site's reliability as a citation source. The issues appear to stem from personal tensions, as it was suggested that these actions against Patokallio were motivated by his exposure of aliases used by the Archive.today maintainer. In a subsequent admission, the site's apparent owner acknowledged intentions to ‘scale down the DDoS.’ In response to these developments, Wikipedia editors are actively updating and replacing links pointing to Archive.today with more reliable alternatives such as the Wayback Machine, Ghostarchive, Megalodon, or directly linking to the original sources if available. It is noteworthy that Archive.today has previously been on and off Wikipedia's blacklist, first added in 2013 and later removed in 2016, underscoring longstanding concerns about the site's practices. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog](https://daily.dev/posts/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog-jinuuaxvf) · Lobsters · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?](https://daily.dev/posts/ask-hn-weird-archive-today-behavior--pdikfe4lk) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [News publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine](https://daily.dev/posts/news-publishers-are-blocking-the-internet-archive-s-wayback-machine-e98mfc4a6) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [News Sites Are Blocking Internet Archive Over AI Scraping Fears](https://daily.dev/posts/news-sites-are-blocking-internet-archive-over-ai-scraping-fears-2mqqvfze1) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cyber](https://daily.dev/tags/cyber) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/wikipedia-blacklists-archive-today-following-alleged-ddos-attack-and-link-tampering-www8wr5cn) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today Following Alleged DDoS Attack and Link Tampering","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/wikipedia-blacklists-archive-today-following-alleged-ddos-attack-and-link-tampering-www8wr5cn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/wikipedia-blacklists-archive-today-following-alleged-ddos-attack-and-link-tampering-www8wr5cn"},"datePublished":"2026-02-21T20:22:27.942Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T20:22:44.076Z","description":"Wikipedia has blacklisted Archive.today (also known as archive.is and archive.ph), affecting over 695,000 links across roughly 400,000 pages. 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