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Here’s a link to the article. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/23-major-news-sites-blocked-160328787.html


Trying to track down that deleted tweet or verify what a website actually said last month? The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has served as your digital time machine for three decades, preserving over a trillion web pages. But this critical tool—the only public archive of its scale—now faces systematic blocking from major media outlets who fear their content might train AI competitors.

Twenty-Three Major News Sites Have Gone Dark​

The New York Times, USA Today’s 200+ outlets, and Reddit have all cut off the preservation tool that journalists rely on.

According to Originality AI analysis, 23 major news sites currently block ia_archiverbot, the Wayback Machine’s web crawler. USA Today Co. operates over 200 media outlets, making its blocking decision particularly devastating. The Guardian takes a more subtle approach—allowing crawling but filtering archived content from public access. When you search for historical Guardian articles, you’ll hit digital dead ends.
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I notices lately archie.today only have one active mirror too. Others are down entirely.
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How this news funny @RiskyStuff
 
ggmopa said:
I notices lately archie.today only have one active mirror too. Others are down entirely.
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How this news funny @RiskyStuff
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Oho, I see you have a friend. You guys socialize in a weird way.
 
ggmopa said:
I notices lately archie.today only have one active mirror too. Others are down entirely.
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How this news funny @RiskyStuff
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Archive.today (which is different from the wayback machine) and has hidden/shady owners recently tried to DDOS a small innocuous blog for writing about them.

gyrovague.com

archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog

Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal b…
gyrovague.com gyrovague.com

Then Wikipedia blacklisted them entirely and started removing over almost 700k links from archive.today and all mirrors.

Wikipedia:archive.today guidance - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

So, they went from flying high to touching the ground real quick over a 2023 blog post that wasn't even that had TBH.
 

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