Overview
- The English Wikipedia community reached consensus to deprecate Archive.today, add it to the spam blacklist, block new additions, and remove existing links.
- Roughly 695,000 links across about 400,000 pages are affected, with published guidance covering domain variants and replacements such as the Internet Archive, Ghostarchive, and Megalodon.
- Reports cite JavaScript on the archive’s CAPTCHA page that used visitors’ browsers to hit Jani Patokallio’s blog, with at least one outlet noting the code was still active as of February 19.
- Editors flagged archived snapshots that appeared altered to insert Patokallio’s name, leading to a finding that the service’s captures are unreliable.
- Coverage references threatening messages from an operator identified as “Nora,” and media report an FBI effort to gather information on the archive’s founder.