WingNews logo WingNews
top | item 47096147

(no title)

behringer | 9 days ago

Is that, itself, true or disinformation?

discuss

order

ndiddy|9 days ago

They did edit archived pages. They temporarily did a find/replace on their archive to replace "Nora Puchreiner" (an alias the site operator uses) with "Jani Patokallio" (the name of the blogger who wrote about archive.today's owner). https://megalodon.jp/2026-0219-1634-10/https://archive.ph:44...

They also tampered with their archive for a few of the social media sites (Twitter, Instagram, Blogger) by changing the name of the signed in account to Jani Patokallio. https://megalodon.jp/2026-0220-0320-05/https://archive.is:44...

I think Wikipedia made the right decision, you can't trust an archival service for citations if every time the sysop gets in a row they tamper with their database.

UqWBcuFx6NV4r|9 days ago

This is so ‘early internet beef’ quaint. What next? Are they going to G-line each other?

stuffoverflow|9 days ago

I've not seen any evidence of them editing archived pages BUT the DDOSing of gyrovague.com is true and still actively taking place. The author of that blog is Finnish leading archive.today to ban all Finnish IPs by giving them endless captcha loops. After solving the first captcha, the page reloads and a javascript snippet appears in the source that attempts to spam gyrovague.com with repeated fetches.

verteu|6 days ago

> I've not seen any evidence of them editing archived pages

There is evidence of this in the article you're commenting on.

mmooss|9 days ago

How do you know that? Did you see it (do you have a Finnish IP?)?

drum55|9 days ago

It was true and visible when reported, yeah.

daymanstep|9 days ago

I've also noticed archive.today injecting suspicious looking ads into archived pages that originally did not have ads.