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2026
Does this website track you? (I found a: top-fwz1 domain in the source code of archive is)original ↗
4 Mar 2026
3 Mar 2026
Hello, hope everything is going well :) 2 small questions: Any specific reason as to why the archive was down earlier due to a server error? Also, every so often I (and some friends) will see nothing but a rotating loading circle when trying to access the website, what’s the reason for that? Thank you!original ↗
27 Feb 2026
After a lot of reading, I’m inclined to believe that the accusations against you are fabricated, but there’s one thing I’m still not clear on: did you actually set up any code to send repeated random requests to an external site? If so, I’m curious what your reasoning was, as I can’t seem to think of a good reason. Even if was a significant threat, that still seems like an odd way to respond. P.S. If you get the TV interview, could you link to a recording, pretty please? (Even if there’s no Engloriginal ↗
26 Feb 2026
The drama has reached the point where it seems we have found a way to accept tax-deductible…original ↗
25 Feb 2026
By the way, to save everyone from the usual round of naïve questions (“do you store IP addresses?”, …original ↗
25 Feb 2026
In a response you said: “I would understand your claim if you wrote that you unsubscribed from recurring donations. But why should I—or anyone else—be interested in your use of a free utility?” Maybe you shouldn’t be interested, except that my concerns seem to be shared by lots of other people — and by Wikipedia, which says you are no longer trustworthy. Maybe you don’t care about that either, but if you don’t care what users or Wikipedia or any of its users think then why did you bother settingoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2026
The archive does host a lot of CSAM though - not to impugn the work of the archive, but whenever somebody seems to report CSAM to the archive, pages are merely hidden rather than fully removed (eg with a vpn). A user complained on x a while ago about the archive not removing CSAM when reported and some archived pages (like smutty.***) contain potentially hundreds of CSAM. Have you at least considered looking yourself and removing any CSAM you see?original ↗
25 Feb 2026
“Trustworthiness” in my question meant “reputation of being trustworthy”, i.e. reputation of you not modifying saved pages to insert fake information into them. Guarantees about your archive being trustworthy are literally on the main page:
> Archive.today is a time capsule for web pages! It takes a ‘snapshot’ of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears
> …
> and provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web page.
This was true until veryoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2026
I wanted to say I still support you on liberapay, but now I see I stopped paying about a year ago when my card somehow stopped working. Oops. Maybe you should set a paywall, lol. (No, I love that you don’t.) Your site is great even with all the recent drama. You and that girl that does Sci-Hub are two heroes of the internet that everyone somehow also pretends to hate. Of course in the ideal platonic world your site would not be necessary, but here we are.original ↗
24 Feb 2026
Well, then let me chim in: I cancelled my weekly Liberapay donations to you in January after all of the DDoS nonsense. Why should I continue to donate to you after you’ve just destroyed all trustworthiness you had?original ↗
23 Feb 2026
I have used and like archive.today, but the knowledge that when I use it, my browser is hijacked to DDoS some guys website — or that archive.today has been altering screenshots of pages — makes me question whether I can trust your service any more. Why should I continue to use it?original ↗
23 Feb 2026
I get your perspective is different and its true that the site has been unfairly maligned for a long time. I guess my perspective is different because I’ve been using the site for over a decade, and I have deeply appreciated what you are doing, I’ve donated in the past. Your site is a valuable resource precisely because it often contradicts the narrative of those ‘noble’ sites. It may feel like a thankless effort, it likely is but its relevance shows its not a lost cause. Thanks for those years.original ↗
22 Feb 2026
22 Feb 2026
The entire reason your site was valuable is because of its credibility as a third party archival site. There’s a reason the U.S. govt wants to find anything they can to discredit you; because it threatens them to have an objective resource that you can reliably point as proof something was on the Internet or was changed. With this DDoS shit and editing pages you have completely destroyed the site’s credibility, & for what? bafflingly self-induced sabotage. Now you’ve given an excuse not to care.original ↗
22 Feb 2026
Also stop fucking coping about how this was actually “worth it” and a good thing. Take some responsibility for the position and importance you had, and how utterly useless your entire handling of this has been even in pursuit of whatever retributive goal you had in mind. Have you ever heard of the Streisand effect? You do realize that by tying the downfall of the site to that guy’s blogpost, now people will have to talk about it as context for what you did? Just own it and admit the mistake.original ↗
22 Feb 2026