The site commits copyright infringement by showing you content it doesn't have t...

InsideOutSanta · 2026-03-22T10:34:24 1774175664

I'm not sure whether you're making a joke or confusing the two websites.

walletdrainer · 2026-03-22T11:01:12 1774177272

You’re just not at all familiar with the subject.

Archive.org is awful. It allows site owners and random third parties to edit old archived pages.

Archive.today does not.

Hamuko · 2026-03-22T12:22:10 1774182130

Is it that much better that Archive.today reserves the right to edit old archived pages for the owner whenever they have a petty grudge with someone?

At least site owners have the copyright on the pages that Archive.org saves. They can just get the content pulled through DMCA anyway.

walletdrainer · 2026-03-23T12:19:54 1774268394

Are you for real?

The operator of archive.today (presumably one, at most a handful of people) can edit archived pages on archive.today

Literally anyone can edit archived pages on archive.org.

There are literally at least hundreds of thousands of tampered archives on archive.org. How is that not worse than the couple of tampered archives on archive.today?

InsideOutSanta · 2026-03-25T13:10:53 1774444253

> You’re just not at all familiar with the subject.

Not true

>Archive.org is awful. It allows site owners and random third parties to edit old archived pages.

Also not true. However, Archive.today edits archived pages itself.

walletdrainer · 2026-03-25T19:36:39 1774467399

It’s true https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096013

InsideOutSanta · 2026-03-27T15:31:59 1774625519

If that is the only evidence you have, then it proves the opposite of your point.

ddydjjffntn · 2026-03-22T16:55:02 1774198502

Folks keep saying this

Do you actually mean edit or do you just mean delete

Both are problematic, but falsifying a historic record is orders of magnitude worse than deleting one, and conflating them would be extremely dishonest

walletdrainer · 2026-03-22T21:27:35 1774214855

Archive.org lets archived pages pull in JavaScript from the non-archived internet, so it’s only trustworthy if viewed with JavaScript disabled.