There's nothing on that level that I've seen. I've come across other things that bypass paywalls, but creating good archived permalinks is something special.

Well that’s too bad. I like that site. Do you know of anything similar that allows you to bypass paywalls?

grayruby

> In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases.

The internet is warfare.

Scoresby

The tl;dr -- archive.today was inserting links into the pages we all use to create a DDOS against the Gyrovague blog. That's led to Wikipedia 

tech

The tl;dr -- archive.today was inserting links into the pages we all use to create a DDOS against the Gyrovague blog. That's led to Wikipedia [purging archive.today links](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5).

[Ars Technica's got a full story on it, too.](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/)