In nerd space, there is a big Archive Today controversy which comes down to these two things:
- They used their captcha mechanism to have their end-users DDoS a party that they had a dispute with
- They altered archived content
Over the last half year or so I noticed an increase in captaches, which skyrocketed over the last couple of weeks. My speculation is that this has to do with the controversy.
Their actions blew up far enough for Wikipedia to actively started replacing almost 700k links to archived content hosted on various domains of the Archive Today platform with content by other archival sites.
For my blog, with some 10k published and scheduled blog posts, my estimate is that I would need to replace at least 100k links: an effort that I cannot perform with the energy levels left after my cancer treatments in 2020.
What I can do is for future posts to use other archival sites, of which this is a short-list (all to their Wikipedia entries):
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 