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Archive your sources somewhere they can't be blocked.

More than 340 local news sites now limit the Wayback Machine. When the public archive can't see your source, your own capture is the only copy you control.

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local news outlets now limit the Internet Archive's access to their journalism, up from 241 in January 2026, including USA Today Co., McClatchy, Advance Local, and Tribune Publishing titles. (Nieman Lab, May 2026)

The story lives or dies on what the page said.

Pages get edited after publication. Posts get deleted when the story breaks. And the archive you counted on may be blocked from the site that matters. A capture you make yourself, at the moment you find the source, is the version of record for your reporting.

Optional certificate from $9. The Legal certificate ($39) adds an RFC 3161 timestamp and a declaration template designed to support authentication under FRE 902(13)/(14). Its evidence package states whether the timestamp qualifies under eIDAS.