Some time ago, we were contacted by a group fighting against online CSAM, demanding that AdGuard DNS blocks the Archive.today website. This was only the beginning of a much larger story…
Regarding your last point, it seemed pretty clear to me that they gave only one or few URLs to AdGuard, AdGuard informed archivetoday, and they removed that content. What they’re saying here is that the other URLs, the other illegal content they did not even disclose URLs to, still exist and have not been removed. Which is obvious, why would they have been removed when they are not known or reported.
This understanding of mine is supported by their text earlier in the document where they talk about having shared only few of those they know of, and that these are available upon request by law enforcement or adguard.
All of this still leaves open why they do not report the illegal content themselves, so that it gets removed. And the answer seems likely to be: So they can report to proxies with the intention that archivetoday gets blocked on “proxy” services.
Regarding your last point, it seemed pretty clear to me that they gave only one or few URLs to AdGuard, AdGuard informed archivetoday, and they removed that content. What they’re saying here is that the other URLs, the other illegal content they did not even disclose URLs to, still exist and have not been removed. Which is obvious, why would they have been removed when they are not known or reported.
This understanding of mine is supported by their text earlier in the document where they talk about having shared only few of those they know of, and that these are available upon request by law enforcement or adguard.
All of this still leaves open why they do not report the illegal content themselves, so that it gets removed. And the answer seems likely to be: So they can report to proxies with the intention that archivetoday gets blocked on “proxy” services.