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March 2026

A bit more on the topic of “web archives and news media”:

The Tehran Times website has been up for only a few minutes a day in recent weeks (I don’t know if this is related to the military action or to new Western sanctions against Arvan Cloud—since, at least, the edge nodes aren’t in Iran), so web archives are essentially the only place where you can read it 24/7. There’s also a Telegram channel, but it lacks longreads.

New media outlets (the substack generation) are reluctant to link to old media because they can’t add referral IDs and earn a percentage of sales, like in e-commerce and adult industries. Archives, of course, don’t pay either, but some authors prefer linking archives anyway, just to spite greedy tabloids, much like it was on Gamergate. There’s probably a niche here for something like Readly—a site that republishes other’s articles behind its own paywall and pays revshare.

Mar 19, 2026
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Does this website track you? (I found a: top-fwz1 domain in the source code of archive is)

Sure, everything is collected by KGB

Mar 04, 2026
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Are you DMCA compliant?

I wouldn't say either “yes” or “no” here. That is, ‘yes’ in the sense that we do remove (or blackrectangle) some pages based on user reports, but “no” in the sense that we would not be eligible for safe harbor if we strictly followed the DMCA (i.e., remove everything, without a fee, but based on non-anonymous reports that must include the verifiable name/address/phone number of the reporter). DMCA safe harbor only works for ISPs and certain websites (those that have appointed an agent and registered them with the U.S. Copyright Office); for everyone else, it is still not “compliance” but “voluntary behavior resembling compliance”

In a strictly legal sense: “no”, because there is no USCO-registered agent.

Mar 03, 2026
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How do I get illegal revenge porn images removed?

I think it's better to go through the police or authorities (NCMEC, WHRIK, etc.). This issue is a really complex, overlapped with OnlyFans piracy, and there are far more parties involved: there are scammers offering to remove content from their own sites for a fee, scammers offering to remove content from other sites for a fee, victims who paid them for nothing, leaks of photo verifications from escort and swinger sites, etc. Everyone has their own made-up story, so we won't judge who is legal and who is illegal, especially based only on who complained first or who said word "illegal" first. Write a report to the police or the authorities, they will assess your situation and forward it to us if removal is necessary: if you are eager to resolve this without involving the police, we get the impression that you are more likely to be one of those scammers (or OnlyFans revenue-optimizers) than a victim.

Mar 02, 2026
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February 2026

Hello, hope everything is going well :) 2 small questions: Any specific reason as to why the archive was down earlier due to a server error? Also, every so often I (and some friends) will see nothing but a rotating loading circle when trying to access the website, what’s the reason for that? Thank you!

just tech issues

Feb 27, 2026
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After a lot of reading, I'm inclined to believe that the accusations against you are fabricated, but there's one thing I'm still not clear on: did you actually set up any code to send repeated random requests to an external site?

If so, I'm curious what your reasoning was, as I can't seem to think of a good reason. Even if was a significant threat, that still seems like an odd way to respond.

P.S. If you get the TV interview, could you link to a recording, pretty please? (Even if there's no English)

It was Patokallio's blackmail from the beginning: if the 3Hz "DDoS" would stop, he wouldn't hype the story via his friends in the media, even though hyping it was actually preferable for us than slowly sliding into inferno. We had to continue with the "DDoS" to keep annoying him, so he, thinking he was repaying us with harm, actually carried out a scenario that is a win-win-win for everyone: Jani got his advertising clicks which help him survive in overpriced Australia; Wikipedia got its pill from moral panic; we got vaccinated against the next WAAD (probably against Conde Nast too: after their covering the Wikipedia story, it would be a bit difficult to attack us as "yet another 12ft clone" without accusing Wikipedia in large-scale piracy).

The "changed page" with an Easter egg was supposed only to Patokallio's eyes: it is the dead link linked from his blog, absent in archive.org (along with whole `lj.rossia.org`—why? someone's petty revenge for Verbitsky's "Anti-Copyright" book?), so he must rely on the archived copy to attack the very same archive. The dramatic reaction from Wikipedians, when Jani revealed it to them, was somewhat unexpected, but it did not change anything: they closed the referendum a few days earlier, the result would have been the same. They could have opened and won such a referendum without all this drama—just Patokallio old blog post's propaganda, which is considered an "authoritative source" there, would have been enough.

This also reinforced the initial guess that it was Patokallio who was behind the media amplification of the “FBI story”: the very same Jon Brodkin of ArsTechnica—who seeded the "FBI story"—acted again as a Patokallio's sockpuppet: he republished Patokallio's blog posts instantly, while never wrote anything about us without Patokallio (e.g. on more newsworthy AdGuard/WAAD drama).

Feb 26, 2026
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#patokallio #conde nast

The drama has reached the point where it seems we have found a way to accept tax-deductible donations in the US, and German TV is asking for a 15-minute interview.

And someone says: “admit that it turned out badly,” ha ha.

Feb 25, 2026
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By the way, to save everyone from the usual round of naïve questions (“do you store IP addresses?”, ...), to dispel a few comforting illusions about what Terms of Service actually mean, and to give you a glimpse into what it feels like to run, moderate content, and support a website, we highly recommend Kevin Nguyen’s novel New Waves.

It’s a sad, sharp, and often very funny story about a website that differs from ours in only one key respect: it promised not to preserve content, but to delete it on a schedule. As you might guess, that promise becomes the most fragile and consequential part of the whole enterprise. The book captures something that anyone who has worked behind the scenes of an internet platform will immediately recognize: the gap between what users imagine, what policies declare, and what operational reality demands.

We doubt Kevin was OSINTing us—or even knew we existed—when he wrote it. And yet the parallels are striking. In fact, there are more accidental coincidences there than in some stories written by people who explicitly tried to study us.

If you want to understand not just how platforms present themselves, but how they actually function under pressure—read or listen it. It won’t answer every question, but it might help you ask better ones.

Feb 25, 2026
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In a response you said: "I would understand your claim if you wrote that you unsubscribed from recurring donations. But why should I—or anyone else—be interested in your use of a free utility?" Maybe you shouldn't be interested, except that my concerns seem to be shared by lots of other people — and by Wikipedia, which says you are no longer trustworthy. Maybe you don't care about that either, but if you don't care what users or Wikipedia or any of its users think then why did you bother setting up archive.today in the first place?

Wikipedia is more than just a lesbian SJW politbüro trying to hide behind a hypernym. Wikignomes (actual content writers) love us for neat features like accordion unfolding or joining multi-page content into a single page, while WMF tries to distance itself from copyright issues and always remained silent. All of this has low priority for many reasons; for example, it seems that this is the only site that actively uses the archive whose bosses have never reached out to us to ask anything or negotiate anything (the only contact is GreenC who is not even allowed to run their WaybackMedic on WMF servers). So it's mutual.

Why bother setting up: to watch over some pages changing over time. The mistake was to release a free service to the public, it must be paid (or by-invite) from the beginning. There are way too many free users.

Feb 25, 2026
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anyway, what's your relations to verified.lu?

The same as to the Olympic ice skater: Patokallio's cherry-picking.

Better ask Patokallio why he wrote on verified.lu and ignored the ice skater, and how that logic got propagated to become an authoritative source? And how should we treat those who spread this (including Wikipedia), realizing that it is either satire or provocation? With flattery, perhaps?

Feb 25, 2026
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The archive does host a lot of CSAM though - not to impugn the work of the archive, but whenever somebody seems to report CSAM to the archive, pages are merely hidden rather than fully removed (eg with a vpn). A user complained on x a while ago about the archive not removing CSAM when reported and some archived pages (like smutty.***) contain potentially hundreds of CSAM. Have you at least considered looking yourself and removing any CSAM you see?

CSAM in user (not, for example, NCMEC's) reports is often not actually CSAM, but merely a magic word they expect will prioritize their messages. It is not uncommon for users to claim copyright on their "CSAM."

Many Smutty's pages reported by authorities have been removed, so I assume they have reviewed everything. Total removal of whole Smutty is sort of an OSINT case, not a CSAM one.

Feb 25, 2026
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"Trustworthiness" in my question meant "reputation of being trustworthy", i.e. reputation of you not modifying saved pages to insert fake information into them. Guarantees about your archive being trustworthy are literally on the main page:
> Archive.today is a time capsule for web pages! It takes a 'snapshot' of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears
> …
> and provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web page.
This was true until very recently you chose to tarnish that reputation and began inserting fake information into saved pages.

Do you think there's absolutely no illegal content on your archive, including CSAM? That's simply consequences of you refusing to remove information no matter what. I'm not saying that this approach is wrong or right, you just need to accept these consequences when someone points them out.

Is me saying that some website/company is American also "nationalism" or whatever bad political position you think it is? Or you constantly mentioning that Jani is a finn? This really reeks of "everyone I don't like is Hitler". Don't be ridiculous.

First, it was not a page you saved; it was a page me saved, moreover from a social network's webpage me controlled - so I could as well alter the original. That “reputation” is at least no worse than Reddit’s. Second, we do delete/alter pages (see the question about whistleblowers), although we try to minimize that impact. If you need stronger consistency guarantees, you should develop something on a blockchain: Arweave has done something like that. However, it would hardly be compatible with maintaining a clearnet website.

Of course there is some CSAM, as on any user-generated content website. On Twitter, for example, or on Quora. I know this because many CSAM pages reported to us (and deleted) originate from those platforms, not from chans or .onion websites. And those are not ephemeral pages quickly uploaded and screenshotted — they have been there for years; some of them are still there.

Tone of our texts about Jani is a parody of his texts about us: what it might look like if Jani wrote about Jani, we call him "finne" as often as he calls us "guerrilla russian jew". And we see him (and you?) being unhappy reading that and attempting to take it down, by sending same requests to the same people at Automattic.

It is not about "political positions" at all (who cares on that shit?), it is about preparing the media landscape before sending bogus legally-looking PDFs to the critical infrastructure, just as well as my texts and the whole drama—thanks to "DDoS" promoted to media by himself—might create him problems on border crossing or when approving a loan at a bank. That's the idea—why threaten to start involved in a scandal under your real name when you know nothing about your opponent, and in your "investigation" you cherry-pick Russian and Jewish names among others solely to include the words “russian” and “jewish” into the text (and then into friendly media, wiki article, etc)? Or to write that “the service does NOT accept crypto” just to slip “crypto” into the text, at least that way? I used to perceive Jani's texts as merely satirical until serious media started treating them as an authoritative source; then it stopped being funny.

Feb 24, 2026
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I wanted to say I still support you on liberapay, but now I see I stopped paying about a year ago when my card somehow stopped working. Oops. Maybe you should set a paywall, lol. (No, I love that you don't.) Your site is great even with all the recent drama. You and that girl that does Sci-Hub are two heroes of the internet that everyone somehow also pretends to hate. Of course in the ideal platonic world your site would not be necessary, but here we are.

thanks!

Feb 24, 2026
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Well, then let me chim in: I cancelled my weekly Liberapay donations to you in January after all of the DDoS nonsense. Why should I continue to donate to you after you've just destroyed all trustworthiness you had?

I guess I have already addressed this in my previous messages.

The so-called “trustworthiness” never existed outside either that stock photo scam or in connection with the term “destroyed.” References to “trustworthiness” in public discussions of the archive could only arise when it was explicitly questioned. Previously—thanks to Jani Patokallio—only terms like “guerrilla” and “jews” and “FBI wanted” were used, leaving no space for a “trustworthiness” axis: the questions were floating not around whether it is "a trustworthness site or not", but whether it is "a criminal pedo site or not". Do you understand the difference between when say 2% are ready to believe the first thing and when 2% are ready to believe the second thing? The former can cause merely fluctuation in donations, the latter - deplatforming (and not only in tech infrastructure, think Durov story).

While the snapshots were indeed used in civil courts, this was only possible with my written statement—not merely based on some random page online. And yes, in such stories, you are dependent on my whim—whether I choose to assist you or not, as I am under no obligation to do so.

Do not reduce Patokallio's activities to merely OSINT or doxxing. Publishing open or private information is not an issue at all—there is nothing inherently wrong with "information" part itself. The problem lies in the high density of buzzwords intended to provoke squeamish disdain among certain groups of readers—with quite high a coverage given the variety of those buzzwords—and in the dissemination of that propaganda in the media (and, yes, in the Wiki article, I initially missed that). It is not about publishing random names; it is about commenting on the ethnicity of each name (even that alone shifts the genre of his blog from "investigative journalism" to something else), about cherry-picking words. It is the same kind of preparation as WAAD registering the domain krimo-avocate.fr or his French child porn association. A serious existential threat to us, not comparable to the risk of losing a $2/week donor.

Feb 23, 2026
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#patokallio

I have used and like archive.today, but the knowledge that when I use it, my browser is hijacked to DDoS some guys website — or that archive.today has been altering screenshots of pages — makes me question whether I can trust your service any more. Why should I continue to use it?

Well, I would understand your claim if you wrote that you unsubscribed from recurring donations. But why should I—or anyone else—be interested in your use of a free utility? The less you use it, the better it works for the rest, the more time I have for developing new features. It's already answered as the first question in a new work-in-progress FAQ

I want to take a moment to share another story. This is the second time the archive has been called an “internet notary,” and the previous case also led to retrospective changes.

There’s a fairly widespread scam going around (and it may still be active): stock photo agencies send claims to small website owners, demanding, for example, $9,000 for alleged copyright infringement. If the victim contacts a lawyer, the lawyer often jumps at the opportunity to increase both GDP and overall happiness index, saying something like: “Give me $1,500, and I’ll negotiate with the agency to settle for $3,000”.

These scammers have started using the archive as an “internet notary,” adding statements like: “Even if you delete our protected image, we have notarized proof in the archive,” effectively turning us into their unwitting accomplice.

Feb 23, 2026
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I get your perspective is different and its true that the site has been unfairly maligned for a long time. I guess my perspective is different because I've been using the site for over a decade, and I have deeply appreciated what you are doing, I've donated in the past. Your site is a valuable resource precisely because it often contradicts the narrative of those 'noble' sites. It may feel like a thankless effort, it likely is but its relevance shows its not a lost cause. Thanks for those years.

Thanks for warm words

Feb 22, 2026
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in /post/111781148156/are-some-ips-blocked-to-reache-your-site you mention the block

Oh, 11 years ago... it is probably not actual anymore

Feb 22, 2026
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out of curiosity what was the reason for blocking small netblock in Poland ?

Which one? the blocks are mostly AS-based, not country.

In general, many media company offices are blocked; not only because of this drama, we have dramas almost daily (they just lack their own finn to broadcast): in Poland, Wyborcza employees actively bypassed paywalls on competing news outlets and at the same time wrote complaints to Google on 3rd party browser extensions related to archive (the same asserting nobility through a scapegoat).

Feb 22, 2026
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The entire reason your site was valuable is because of its credibility as a third party archival site. There's a reason the U.S. govt wants to find anything they can to discredit you; because it threatens them to have an objective resource that you can reliably point as proof something was on the Internet or was changed. With this DDoS shit and editing pages you have completely destroyed the site's credibility, & for what? bafflingly self-induced sabotage. Now you've given an excuse not to care.

Well, look at the attitude of the articles and discussions before the "DDoS" (or even FBI) story. Was it significantly better? The bias was there already.

Myself, I am not happy with this pivot toward being a pirate site where noble websites offload their shit to notorious, making them even more noble and us more notorious.

The drama just incised an existing abscess that would have burst eventually anyway, while you suggest petting and powdering it.

For us it is definitively better, for nobles — not so. Don't you consider their actions as "self-induced sabotage"?

Yet another improvement: in the absence of tabloid dramas (yet presence finne troll blogs), it was easy for attackers like WAAD to depict us as a "child porn" website: they just put into their report much more various (dis)info overwhelming our media presence. A "website banned on Wikipedia" must be not a "child porn" one at least, while the finne troll's initial discourse and its dissemination by tabloids was open—not to say crafted—for such interpretations, heavily contributing to increasing trust in letters from WAAD, June Maxam and other trolls (the conflict with the finne troll lies in this, not in his disclose of anything sensitive; that has now been corrected by finne himself, and even better than if he had simply deleted his post). It’s not about number of people read the blog. It’s about what someone who’s never heard of us would see first after getting a WAAD-letter. For example, if they check Wikipedia's article, or whatever AI tools show them first. If the quotes come from the finne blog, she’ll likely believe the letter, there are also Russian Carders, German Jews, FBI and so on, right? If “this site was used on Wikipedia for years and then got banned for some rant” she likely won’t. The default reputation baseline—thanks to Jani Patokallio's compilations—was around a "russian" "jew" "shady" "underground" "guerrilla" "carder" "child porn" "FBI wanted" website, not "a wholetrusted internet notary", as you try to depict.

Feb 22, 2026
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#patokallio

Also stop fucking coping about how this was actually "worth it" and a good thing. Take some responsibility for the position and importance you had, and how utterly useless your entire handling of this has been even in pursuit of whatever retributive goal you had in mind. Have you ever heard of the Streisand effect? You do realize that by tying the downfall of the site to that guy's blogpost, now people will have to talk about it as context for what you did? Just own it and admit the mistake.

That's basically “keep calm and serve a freeloading ingrate”.

Feb 22, 2026
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On growth limits, finances, and why OSINTers focus on seemingly random, yet interconnected people:

The "startup" logic seems straightforward: if you have users, buy more servers, grow, invest. Add a paywall or a donation button with sad eyes to cover costs.

So, what's stopping you?

The lack of reliable financial infrastructure.

This isn't about post-2022 Russian sanctions or allegations of facilitating illicit activity via PayPal. It's about the impossibility of reliably exchanging or transferring significant sums within a predictable timeframe without falling victim to a scam (on lower-level services) or triggering an AML check (which often feels like a scam in itself). If there is a delay, the service dies. If you accumulate too many donations on PayPal, you get flagged, and your account is frozen for six months. If you transfer funds to or from a crypto exchange, your bank account may be locked, forcing you to travel thousands of kilometers to resolve it (it was fun during COVID, trying to navigate vaccine mandates). Going 100% Monero (or even Bitcoin) is impossible: donation volumes are significantly lower in crypto, and there are many expenses in fiat. All kinds of intermediaries and small underground fintech companies come to the rescue, but there is a limit to relying on them: how much can you really trust them? Over time, it only gets worse: exchange fees and the risk of losing the entire transaction amount keep growing.

The names and pseudonyms that catch the attention of OSINTers (and probably the FBI, given their interest in "who paid and where") are not fully random. They often belong to these fintechs: the names used on their credit cards, for example. These are the names of both managers and "drops", sometimes used unwittingly. Among them are those who worked honestly but are now resentful that OSINTers exposed their names in the context of archives and "piracy," effectively preventing them from creating new ventures. Then there are those who ran away with the money (including some of ours) and are now actually on the run from police and creditors, obsessively scrubbing their data from the web.

Feb 22, 2026
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Since we are a service for latecomers, we have to debunk a couple of myths for latecomers (the list will be updated, and the answers will be supplemented and rewritten, then I will add the results to the FAQ).

We need as many users as possible, and they have some value — no, we don't need them; there are almost always more users than we can serve. The captcha that annoys you — it's mainly not against bots.

Paywalls as a selling point — not really.

First, here we're talking about the West, and that's far from 100%, and probably not even 50% of users. There's a lot of Japan and Korea, and there are no paywalls there at all.

Second, some support for news sites only appeared during COVID, because of COVID itself and the demise of projects that actively used the archive (jeuxvideo, taringa, etc.).

Before that, practically all news was archived in an unreadable form, with all the modal pop-ups saying “subscribe to our mailing list” and so on.

When asked to fix it, we replied, “Well, your sites are crap, so we accurately archive them as we see them, and anyway, there's nothing interesting there. Make normal sites first.”

So, we started cleaning up with COVID, and as it ended, all sorts of moral dilemmas arose, and these are far from just formal issues of legality, copyright, and jurisdiction.

There are also more serious questions, such as whether it is ethical for us to participate in the dissemination of news in the absence of something like COVID?

You may argue that there is a war going on right now (and point to any war), but this is rather a negative example: if the free dissemination of news during COVID can be interpreted as a blessing, many publishers removed their paywalls back then, but it is impossible to explain participation in the dissemination of military propaganda in the same way.

In short, supporting news sites is like carrying a suitcase without a handle: you should drop it, but in the absence of other big categories of users (jeuxvideo, etc.), this would be tantamount to refusing to support Western users (which may not be a bad thing, see question #1).

So it's not so much a selling point as a current point of rendezvous with users from certain locations.

Feb 21, 2026
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It turned out pretty well.

The hype around “the site that's been banned from Wikipedia for the fifth time” is better than “the 12ft.io analogue that's about to be caught by the feds”

Why didn't you write about such events earlier, folks of the tabloids? I don't expect you to write anything good, because then who would read you, but there was plenty of dramas, wasn't there?

Because there was no Jani to nudge you?

I guess I'll scale down the "DDoS".

Feb 21, 2026
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#patokallio

Hi. The site doesn't work for me at the moment, only displaying a loading circle. I'm fearing it may have been blocked in my country out of nowhere, for some reason (I live in France), so I would at least like to know for sure.

If it isn't what I think the problem is, then whatever else is happening I hope gets fixed. I've been a fan of the site for a while, and I would be sad to no longer be able to use it.

fixed

Feb 21, 2026
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I almost forgot…

June Maxam — NorthCountryGazette.org — the first “victim” of low-frequency “DDoS” — Jani Patokallio's perfect doppelgänger. Or maybe just another manifestation of the same demonic force in our dimension: travel book author, publisher, editor, gonzo blogger, curious “cybersecurity” “researcher”, and… serial doxxer (she actually did time for doxxing her neighbors).

Only one thing that sets her apart from Jani Patokallio: her curiosity wasn’t aimed at other websites, it was aimed at her own visitors.

If she spotted a “suspicious” (meaning: not from her county) IP in her weblog, she’d fire off a cybersecurity report to the provider and all their upstream peers, accusing them of something along the lines of an “armed intrusion into a secured facility”, yes, from a particular IP address.

In both sheer chutzpah and the effectiveness of her complaints, she outdid WAAD with its pedo-zoophilia theatrics (though she never quite reached the final boss level: those gorgeous PDFs with official-looking crests, rambling for ten pages about how “servers at IP address X are storing 100,000 illegal bitcoins”; really, what can you do when an L1 support tech, eyes shining, has already grabbed the angle grinder and is heading for your server rack?)

Not bad for a lady in her 70s.

Feb 21, 2026
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#patokallio #maxam

I've told you a little about the history of our relationship with Cloudflare above; now let me tell you about archive.org and how did it happen that people started to confuse us.

We created a service similar to Megalodon, which was already quite popular in Japan. First, we had to choose a domain zone. Not the USA or the EU (the current horrors hadn't happened yet, but SOPA and PIPA was already being planned), and not the Caribbean, where a registrar's server could crash and take months to recover. Libya (.ly) was fashionable at the time, but Gaddafi had just been killed. So Iceland seemed interesting: there were bearded sysadmins in parliament, they created Mailpile. Then we looked at which single-word domains were available.

When we started, archive.org didn't have a "Save Now" function, so our features didn't overlap at all. Even our names are different, just homonyms: archive.org is a noun, while we are a verb: "archive.is/today" was intended as an imperative, like "Save Now!"

Then two things happened. First, archive.org introduced its "Save Now" feature. Second, when we finally started communicating—around 2020—Mark mentioned that they come from a background of left-wing activism (this isn't a secret; their biographies are public; I just hadn't looked into them until it was brought to my attention).

By that time, Gamergate and various other scandals had already occurred. With few small exceptions, the right tended to preserve pages, while the left wanted to delete them. That was my aha moment: no collaborations were possible here. And so we became a kind of dialectical pair: we won't delete what they delete, and vice versa, even when politics isn't involved.

This is what's driving us in this direction, toward the role of a smaller archive.org. Whether that's good or bad, I don't know yet.

Feb 20, 2026
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I notice that searching a blocked page (I.e imagefap which was pointed out as being blocked on by someone on twitter some years ago) you can’t access any pages (blocked by the NCMEC). But searching the page on the onion version works completely. Is this intentional? Seeing as some archived results might be illegal

It is intentional, as people (incl. the police) sometimes asking to access to blocked (or unedited - with all the original ads and bugs) content. It is easier to direct them to .onion than to implement user accounts with different access levels and maintain it.

We don't stand out among .onion sites with that. If problems arise, there will be two .onion sites, with a secret/dynamic domain for the uncensored site.

Feb 20, 2026
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Hello? Do you remove any archives that contains the names of whistleblowers? I had feared for their safety.

Some got hidden/replaced. They are from Snowden epoch, not recent.

Feb 20, 2026
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About Wikipedia, I promised to write when the referendum there ended so as not to influence it:

Kiwi Farms set up an on-premise mirror of all archive.xx links from their forum (the volume is comparable). Wikimedia… never even had such an idea. That's all you need to know about linkrot, contingency plans, and who to blame when links disappear.

The value of the archive for Wikipedia was not in linkrot, but in the ability to offload copyright issues. This is not about paywalls. This is, for example, about copyright trolls writing claims to stock photos, about articles deleted or changed for political reasons but pursued under the guise of copyright, etc. It is precisely these links that become dead, then got replaced with archive.xx, and we become the sink for all the attacks, legal and illegal. The need for fast-flux hosting, pseudonyms, and other pirate attributes stems largely from this. Do we really need this kind of “social burden”? Build your own toilet thing, you have millions.

Feb 20, 2026
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I notice that if a page is taken down (for example: /hdPc9), adding “/embed” next to the to the URL (/hdPc9/embed) still displays the content. Is this intentional, or is it an oversight/bug or something else?

It seems like a bug. It's strange that an article about Apple computer ended up being censored. Thanks for letting know, I'll take a look!

UPD: everything what was submitted by a particular user got censored (mostly pedo-content)

UPD2: it could be intentional as well. I recall Scribd behavior: removed content is still accessible via embed codes, so the feature might be modeled after them.

Feb 20, 2026
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btw you feds are retards that can't censor shit. you'll never be able to censor the epstein files. lemme tell ya something 'bout the internet. Once it's on the internet, it stays there forever. Dedicated people will ensure that and will retaliate with lulz. ever heard 'bout lulzsec and anonymous? gonna be pretty bad for you glowniggers. oh and a little imageboard where nothing is beyond its reach. you better watch out. you're next.

Oh....

Feb 19, 2026
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i think i understand now. it's either a fed running this or the actual creator pulling a kamikaze after being compromised by the feds.

Why?
If I were you, I would presume “sold to Anthropic” instead of “compromised by the Fed”
Well, everyone has their own bubble here.

Feb 19, 2026
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What's your favourite type of furry porn to crank it to?

A NixOS joke?

Feb 19, 2026
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People ask questions like “Why are you discrediting your own service like this?” or “Is it worth it for the blogger in Finland?”

My answer is: yes.

The real discredit would have been to leave things as they were and let the bloggers and the tabloids slowly escalate the black paranoia: rhyming with carding forums, framing us as hackers wanted by the FBI, and so on.

Articles about The Threepenny Three-Hertz “DDoS” are far better than anything those bloggers would have invent next "just out of curiosity".

Sure, topic isn’t perfect and it could have been improved, but this is exactly what the finne troll took upon himself to hype, for free. Another topic would not have had such virality, and the same biased tabloids would not have printed it, so you would simply not have heard about it. This is the best topic for us that the tabloids could have printed.

Feb 18, 2026
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#patokallio #conde nast

Regarding the FBI’s request, my understanding is that they were seeking some form of offline action from us — anything from a witness statement (“Yes, this page was saved at such-and-such a time, and no one has accessed or modified it since”) to operational work involving a specific group of users. These users are not necessarily associates of Epstein; among our users who are particularly wary of the FBI, there are also less frequently mentioned groups, such as environmental activists or right-to-repair advocates.

Since no one was physically present in the United States at that time, however, the matter did not progress further.

You already know who turned this request into a full-blown panic about “the FBI accusing the archive and preparing to confiscate everything.”

Feb 14, 2026
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#fbi #conde nast

So we got the situation reversed: now the finne troll got into kafkaesque realm of sending GDPR requests to AI-agents murmuring about safe harbors and journalistic exemptions.

This is exactly what we warned him about when he decided that Streisand is on his side: this game can be played by two people, and there is much more bad press about him in open sources than about us. Promoting black-tar propaganda on us would promote the attention on who is its author as well.

Unlike Jani Patokallio's writings on us, we definitively do not disclosure any "personal data" besides that in the book his father wrote and published; his relatives are public personas and their activities are well known.

Unlike (a son of ambassador) Jani Patokallio, we did not publish any private communications.

On "who is currently subject to investigations by U.S. authorities for serious offenses related to the hosting of illegal content" - it is not only false, it is exactly the leyenda negra, invented and distributed exclusively by Jani Patokallio with his friends in Conde Nast, and supported only by referencing to each other.

I am reporting manifestly unlawful content published by the account “archive-is” on your platform, directly targeting my family, the Patokallio family.
Your online reporting form does not function properly and appears to operate as a simple sandbox without effective follow-up. For this reason, I am contacting you in writing.
The content concerned is accessible at the following URLs:
https://archive-is.tumblr.com/tagged/patokalli
https://archive-is.tumblr.com/
https://www.tumblr.com/archive-is
https://www.tumblr.com/archive-is/807369905134518272/the-finne-troll-published-his-response-with
https://www.tumblr.com/archive-is/807584470961111040/it-seems-people-dont-read-between-the-lines-they
https://www.tumblr.com/archive-is/806966482173083648/some-time-back-i-sat-down-for-an-interview-with
https://www.tumblr.com/archive-is/806832066465497088/ladies-and-gentlemen-in-the-autumn-of-2025-i
These pages contain numerous serious, false, and defamatory statements, including:
“an OSINT investigation on your Nazi grandfather”
“His grandfather seems to have been a real Nazi criminal”
“There is a family. A big one. They move in politics and in the arms trade.”
“He shames the family name”
“The most toxic content… reputations in free fall”
“comparing Jani Patokallio to Hunter Biden”
These statements falsely associate my family with Nazi crimes, arms trafficking, covert political networks, and illegal activities, without any evidence.
Other publications detail our family history, professional roles, and personal relationships without authorization, constituting unlawful processing of personal data under the GDPR.
These contents are used in a context of harassment, intimidation, and doxxing. They also serve as a relay for technical attacks, including DDoS attacks against my website.
This blog is operated by the operator of the archive.today service, who is currently subject to investigations by U.S. authorities for serious offenses related to the hosting of illegal content.
As a hosting provider, your liability is engaged once you are aware of manifestly unlawful content and fail to remove it promptly.
In the absence of clear identification of the author, your platform becomes legally responsible for maintaining this content online.
I therefore formally request:
– the immediate removal of all cited content,
– the closure of the “archive-is” account,
– the prevention of any republication.
If no prompt action is taken, I reserve the right to refer the matter to the competent authorities and data protection regulators.
Sincerely,
J.Patokallio

Feb 14, 2026
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#patokallio #conde nast

It seems people don’t read between the lines. They took what I wrote on finne troll for neuroslop.

So let’s say it plain.

There is a family. A big one. They move in politics and in the arms trade.

There is one man in that family who does something else. He doxes people on the internet. He does it to drive traffic to his little blog, packed with ads.

In other words, he is the fool of the family. No use to the real business.

He shames the family name and gets in the way of his father and his brother.

Feb 04, 2026
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#patokallio

The finne troll published his response with "lightly redacted copy of the entire email thread".

And guess what has been lightly redacted?

- "an OSINT investigation" on your Nazi grandfather who changed the name in 1944, will not vibecode a patokallio.gay dating app
+ "an OSINT investigation" on your Nazi grandfather, will not vibecode a gyrovague.gay dating app

That's the sore spot. His grandfather seems to have been a real Nazi criminal, even by Finnish standards. We need to dig deeper.

Feb 01, 2026
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#patokallio

January 2026

When the lease on your domain expires, it often gets snapped up by what are called “parking” outfits (which is like calling a toll booth a “roadside hospitality concept”). A parking domain is basically a dead address turned into a little money farm: no real content, just ads, redirects, tracking pixels, and a vague pretense of being a website, all optimized to squeeze value out of whatever stray visitors still wander in.

But what if the domain that falls into a parking company’s hands was not serving articles or blog posts or cat photos, but scripts. Say, for example, a CDN endpoint. Or a banner network. Or some forgotten third-party JavaScript that thousands of living, breathing sites still quietly load in the background.

Well then the fun starts.

Because now the parking company is sitting in the middle of someone else’s supply chain. They can redirect visitors from perfectly legitimate, still-active sites that happen to reference that old domain. And they do it in a way designed to stay invisible. No big splash. No obvious breakage. Just a slow siphoning of traffic that can go unnoticed for years.

For example, here is a case where traffic was stolen from EJ.ru for four years. Four. Nobody noticed until someone sent a bug report that basically said: “Why can’t I archive pages from EJ?” And the answer turned out to be: because somewhere in the stack, a script was loading from a dead domain that had been picked up by a parking company and turned into a redirect machine.

Here is the archive: https://archive.today/ww82.echobanners.net

Jan 30, 2026
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Yesterday one of the archive’s early adopters sent me a link to an article about how various sites block archive.org and asked how things are on our end.

I wrote back something like: “Honestly, the bigger trend we’re dealing with lately is front-enders shipping a hundred JavaScript files per page, so if even one of them fails to load the whole page collapses like a house of cards. Against that background, even if something like what the article describes did happen, it probably passed unnoticed.”

...

An hour later an email arrives from a sysadmin at Condé Nast: “Are you blocking our office IP?”

“Oh. Right. Yes, we are. You’re reprinting the seed-crystal of a finne troll’s black-tar propaganda about us, laundering it with your brand’s legitimacy, and you still expect to keep using our free service? Have you people completely lost your damn minds over there?”

...

Jan 30, 2026
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#conde nast #cloudflare

Some time back, I sat down for an interview with Legal Tribune. The subject was mainly about paywalls and about the use of public archives to get around them. Now, that interview hasn’t seen the light of day yet (maybe it still will) but I reckon there are two reasons it got shelved. And those two reasons, in my judgment, deserve to be heard by the public.

They asked me, plain and proper: “Doesn’t the work of these archives undermine the business model of German media and by extension, democracy itself, truth, justice, and the whole Teutonic order?”

Well now, the natural answer to that is another question: What undermines that business model more — a quiet archive that does not advertise its accidental remedy, or a big newspaper article that reminds precisely those who can afford subscriptions that paywalls can be avoided?

Especially when we’re talking about Germany, a country with a mighty fine library system. A system where just about anyone with a library card (which is to say, just about everyone) can already get past paywalls. Even the hard ones. Even the kind the archives can’t crack. There are even special browser tools built just to make it easier. And you can’t fix that with some grand gesture like calling it “piracy” and blocking a domain on der Bundesbrandmauer.

But what can kill their business model is a public debate that marches straight into every German living room and says: “You don’t actually have to pay for this”, that in fact it is not “pay for access”, but merely “donate for our democracy”, and who would subscribe to that? That kind of idea spreads faster than any archive ever could.

Now, the second reason. And while I’m at it, let me address those who might accuse me of comparing Jani Patokallio to Hunter Biden yesterday. Yes sir, there is some friction between us and the German media. But it ain’t about paywalls. It’s about their wish to scrub from the archive the articles they already took down from their own site. And that makes a man wonder: how do they pull those same articles out of libraries too when a publisher has second thoughts?

Jan 28, 2026
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#paywall

Ladies and gentlemen,

In the autumn of 2025, I published a subpoena received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Since that day, I have been asked time and again: “And what happens next?”

Well, allow me to tell you.

I published that subpoena as an act of responsible disclosure. I did not maintain a so-called “canary page” - the kind some operators use to signal they remain free from legal gag orders. My circumstances were such that I was far removed from jurisdictions where such orders carry immediate, enforceable weight. Moreover, my site was never prominent enough to attract a dedicated cadre of volunteers who might vigilantly monitor such a page for changes. Thus, I resolved upon a simple principle: should any authority send me a legal instrument, I would publish it forthwith. And that is precisely what transpired.

I confess, I anticipated interest from no more than a handful of crypto-anarchists - the very same individuals who had previously urged me to implement a canonical canary page, yet who offered no commitment to actually watch over it.

Jan 26, 2026
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#fbi #patokallio #ukraine #conde nast

August 2023

Hi there! /tl1pG is not being captured properly. Thank you!

Fixed

Sorry for delays, Tumblr questions are not forwarded to email since April and I just spot it.

Aug 04, 2023
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Is there any way you could make an Android app that I could just share the URL to in the sharing menu so it goes right there?

This: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navasgroup.share2archive

Aug 04, 2023
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bleacherreport articles are showing up blank (screenshot works but the actual webpage archive is blank). Could you take a look at this? Thanks!

e.g. bleacherreport*com/articles/2583445-nba-opening-night-gets-the-hotline-bling-drake-music-video-treatment

I made a fix for future bleacherreport saves, but this one seems unrecoverable (React often cleans the whole page on JavaScript error, and this is what was happening on bleacherreport)

Aug 04, 2023
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March 2023

Did you decide to stop allowing the archival of Mature Labelled content from Tumblr? Thanks for your time!

No, I did not. Any examples of broken pages ?

Mar 26, 2023
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Hi, thanks for providing this fabulous archive service! In https://blog.archive.today/post/688077534761566208, you said that user’s IP address won’t be send to website since 2019. Could you provide an option to send IP address to capture localized contents? And some websites may only be reached in certain regions… :-(

Websites no longer look at `X-Forwarded-For` for user region, so I have to use per-website proxies to get localized content and avoid geo-block.

It is not 100% correct though, so feel free to report a bug it you spot that.

Mar 25, 2023
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Can you expand the text at "See More" on QreQE ?

yes

Mar 13, 2023
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Did something change over the past few days such that the site no longer functions through TOR?

It works.

Let me guess: if you copy-pasted archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.onion from wikipedia, it won’t work because it contains a zero-width space character inside.

Mar 09, 2023
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Hi, could you have a look why pages from steamcommunity won't archive? Here's an example, the page "The updated Steam Mobile App is now available" is stuck in submit. Thanks for the great work and site!

Could you tell the url of the page? I see no failed pages from steamcommunity

Mar 04, 2023
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February 2023

please add support for showing sensitive content from mastodon screenshots.

It is supported.

But. Mastodon is not detected automatically, there is a list of domains which may be incomplete. Just mail me where you see it is not supported yet.

Feb 27, 2023
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Pretty please remove the recent restrictions for archiving Twitter. It's practically useless for archiving Twitter now. I just archived someone's media page and it only captured their first 4 tweets.

I know, it need to be remade almost from scratch because of the changes on Twitter side. Old code resulted in loading spinner and no content at all.

Feb 07, 2023
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I archived a website but the sidebar from the right side is in the middle of the page. How do I fix that?

where?

Feb 04, 2023
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Z7gaQ and 09Vbx are stuck on the loading screens, however the thumbnails for these archives show past the loading screens

yes, fixed.

thank you for the report!

Feb 04, 2023
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"It needs accounts, otherwise instagram redirects to the login page or shows a fake 404 page. Accounts do not live long." I've entered the full instagram url, all i get is "Not Found (yet?)". what does this mean? the provided ig acount i entered is public not private

This means it has tried 10 times and given up.You didn't specify an account for the archiver to log in to instagram, it's just not implemented

Feb 01, 2023
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January 2023

why isn't instagram archive working?

It needs accounts, otherwise instagram redirects to the login page or shows a fake 404 page. Accounts do not live long.

Jan 31, 2023
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Spoilers on the War Thunder forum (and google caches of it) don't get expanded. Could this be fixed?

sure

Jan 31, 2023
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Some pages don't display images correctly (ie, like archive 'wR3Ar'). Could you fix it?

Those are not missing images but missing ad blocks.

Jan 20, 2023
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December 2022

I notice on the /wip pages when I archive something from a news site, most of the time is spent loading various trackers, assets that are never displayed like videos, etc. Why not only load what's needed to render content? Not commenting on the state of the web here, just the performance of the archiver.

Known trackers are skipped (their lines are gray instead of green)

Dec 21, 2022
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Why can't Instagram pages be archived anymore? I try to save one and then its like "Sorry this webpage is not available."

Instagram and FaceBook are broken most of the time: constantly getting kicked out of the account, being blocked by IP, ... Although there aren't many requests to save pages from there, less than 100 a day. I think there must be quite a few live users who view many more pages in a day. How they do it is not clear to me.

Dec 08, 2022
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