When I said that Wikipedia should take it seriously and rip off the bandaid as quick as possible when the DDoS’s started, a few didn’t believe me when I said there was no reason to trust the content anymore if archive[.]today decided malicious activity using their traffic was okay. The owner’s ehtics (or lack thereof) showed that nothing stopped them from maliciously altering the content either, making any reason to hang on to the archive site null and void.

To those people doubting my perspective: Called it.

When Trump threatened tariffs I went ahead and bought 50 TB of storage. With my then expansion it would easily last me until the end of Trump’s turn and maybe a decade if I rationed.

Turns out that was one of my best calls of judgements to date, just not for the reason I thought.

I don’t really see it as a complicated issue. Archive[.]today is now an unreliable source that uses its user traffic to engage in malicious activities. By using it, Wikipedia will become unreliable by proxy.

The best course of action is to distance yourself from it as quickly as possible.