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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by Permik on Sunday March 22, 2026 @06:49AM (#47476196)
archive.today has a documented history of altering the archived content, as such they immediately lose the veil of protection of a service of "public good" in my books.

Just my 2 ¢, not that it really matters anymore in this current information-warfare climate and polarization. :/

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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by baal80spam on Sunday March 22, 2026 @07:27AM (#47476408)
> archive.today has a documented history of altering the archived content

Wow, I had no idea. Thanks.

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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by JasonADrury on Sunday March 22, 2026 @07:37AM (#47476462)
Archive.org has an even worse history of this, FWIW.

It allows website owners and third parties to tamper with archived content.

Look here, for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20140701040026/http://echo.msk.r...

Archive.today is by far the best option available.

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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by echoangle on Sunday March 22, 2026 @06:08PM (#47482736)
What does this example show? It shows „ad blocker detected“ for me.
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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by pschastain on Monday March 23, 2026 @01:40AM (#47485830)
Archived page from 2014 gets tampered with by this javascript from 2022: https://web.archive.org/web/20220912152218/http://echobanner...

Unless you're very technical, web.archive.org is completely untrustworthy

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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by pschastain on Sunday March 22, 2026 @07:51PM (#47483644)
Deflection rather than addressing the actual accusation

Pay attention to this type of behavior, folks. It's revealing

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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by pschastain on Monday March 23, 2026 @01:18AM (#47485733)
What do you want me to address? I'm just pointing out that there are no great archival services, and the only real alternative to archive.today is worse.

>Pay attention to this type of behavior, folks. It's revealing

What does it reveal?

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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by AlexeyBelov on Monday March 23, 2026 @02:55AM (#47486214)
Lmao, did you just start bickering with yourself?

Or, wow, you just revealed your second account.

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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by mafuy on Monday March 23, 2026 @05:13AM (#47486984)
Yea, reading through the page, these two accounts have been sounding exactly the same. I suppose it is in line with the childish behavior of AT.
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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by pschastain on Monday March 23, 2026 @05:57AM (#47487304)
You're an idiot. Genuinely pants-on-head retarded.

The archive.today guy can barely form a complete sentence in English, my writing is not even remotely similar to his. Yet, you slander him and accuse him of being responsible for my posts without the least bit of evidence.

>these two accounts have been sounding exactly the same

Well duh! I literally said that I took over this account from "pschastain" (who is a real person with an extensive online identity) after the other account I was posting with was ratelimited.

Look, it's right there (with another moron accusing me of being Jani, instead of archive.today): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486238

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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by AlexeyBelov on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:32AM (#47490106)
Reported you to mods via email.
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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer... by pschastain on Monday March 23, 2026 @11:13AM (#47490649)
Oh great, I might have to click "New Identity" in Tor Browser.
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