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1 month ago
by A09
The following
request for comments
is closed.
Closing this RfC as unproductive. Although the underlying issue persists, we cannot blacklist the archive links without a clear and practical plan for their removal and/or mitigation through alternative sourcing methods that both preserve content verifiability and ensure reader safety. A more carefully worded, clearly explained, and balanced request for comment may have merit. However, in its current form, this proposal has no reasonable chance of success.--
A09
(pogovor)
18:11, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
With the English Wikipedia declared the use of archive.today links as
deprecated and blacklisted
, many of you might not really know why archive.today added malicious code to ruin the traffic. A global RFC could help deter users from accidentally visiting the DDoS site. And this is the first time an archive site introduced a malicious code that would eat your device's processes.
Ahri Boy
talk
10:13, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
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