Absolute dumbass. Truly a self-own for the ages.

Play stupid games, ...

Here's the relevant archive.today guidance page on Wikipedia for anyone curious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance

If you have a Wikipedia account, you can help replace these links!
Go to the How you can help section, then click on the search links for any of the given domains, and you can go and manually re-archive any links with Archive.org, Ghostarchive, or Megalodon.

Crap. Obviously, I'm gonna gotta stop using archive.today, but it's the only way around paywalls at numerous sites.

Removepaywalls.com (plural) inserts ads, often for shady operations.

Removepaywall.com (singular) usually works, but it's tricky sharing the links (i.e., "choose option 2" or "choose option 4").

Byebyepaywall.com has old, dead options.

Wayback Machine bombs out a lot.

And ghostarchive.org is successful so rarely it's really a last resort.

Anyone know of any others?

I half thought this was archive.org they were blacklisting. Two whole different sites.

In emails sent to Patokallio after the DDoS began, “Nora” from Archive.today threatened to create a public association between Patokallio’s name and AI porn and to create a gay dating app with Patokallio’s name. These threats were discussed by Wikipedia editors in their deliberations over whether to blacklist Archive.today, and then editors noticed that Patokallio’s name had been inserted into some Archive.today captures of webpages.

“Honestly, I’m kind of in shock,” one editor wrote. “Just to make sure I’m understanding the implications of this: we have good reason to believe that the archive.today operator has tampered with the content of their archives, in a manner that suggests they were trying to further their position against the person they are in dispute with???”

That and their refusal to talk to any journalist who references information about Patokallio’s blog makes archive.today unreliable.

Fuck them.

Dammit. Everyone's been using that site to get around paywalls because it works well. Now I have to go find another one that works as well. :|

Is there a reason self hosted paywall bypass tools don’t exist? Is it because these services pay for access?

Arguably the biggest problem with Wikipedia as it aged is the accumulation of dead links.

Brilliant move.