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Wikipedia has blacklisted Archive.today and initiated the removal of 695,000 links due to concerns over DDoS attacks and tampering with web snapshots. This decision affects users relying on Archive.today for accessing archived content, as the site was found to have altered archived data.
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2026-02-20
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2026-02-20
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