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Around 31 million users were affected with their user IDs, Emails, encrypted passwords and usernames being leaked.<ref>{{Cite news |last=LeClair |first=Dave |date=2024-10-11 |title=31 million users impacted by Internet Archive data breach — what we know |url=https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/31-million-users-impacted-by-internet-archive-data-breach-what-we-know |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241109231711/https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/31-million-users-impacted-by-internet-archive-data-breach-what-we-know |archive-date=2024-11-09 |access-date=2025-08-16 |work=Tom's Guide}}</ref>

=== Website no longer usable without JavaScript (2023) ===

Up until 2022, Archive.org was one of the few remaining major websites that could be browsed and searched without [[JavaScript]]. JavaScript was only used where necessary, for example to enable bottomless scrolling. This is known as progressive enhancement.

Since 2023 however, the Archive.org website can no longer be browsed at all without JavaScript, because the legacy HTML-based user interface was replaced with a Google Lit web app.<ref>Before change: [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/3vxC8 2023-06-28]. After change: [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/sdLIp 2023-09-28]</ref>

This made it impossible to view the site on legacy systems that do not support modern web browsers, and slowed down loading on modern web browsers because lots of code has to be executed before any content can appear on screen.

==References==

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 Around 31 million users were affected with their user IDs, Emails, encrypted passwords and usernames being leaked.<ref>{{Cite news |last=LeClair |first=Dave |date=2024-10-11 |title=31 million users impacted by Internet Archive data breach — what we know |url=https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/31-million-users-impacted-by-internet-archive-data-breach-what-we-know |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241109231711/https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/31-million-users-impacted-by-internet-archive-data-breach-what-we-know |archive-date=2024-11-09 |access-date=2025-08-16 |work=Tom's Guide}}</ref>
+=== Website no longer usable without JavaScript (2023) ===
+Up until 2022, Archive.org was one of the few remaining major websites that could be browsed and searched without [[JavaScript]]. JavaScript was only used where necessary, for example to enable bottomless scrolling. This is known as progressive enhancement.
+Since 2023 however, the Archive.org website can no longer be browsed at all without JavaScript, because the legacy HTML-based user interface was replaced with a Google Lit web app.<ref>Before change: [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/3vxC8 2023-06-28]. After change: [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/sdLIp 2023-09-28]</ref><!-- Editor note: I also know this from personal experience, but given that archive.org/details was excluded from the Wayback Machine and Archive Today converts everything to static HTML, there is not much of a historical record available for these changes. User account pages (archive.org/details/@...) were made JS-only in March 2024, but I'll have to find a source for this. -->
+This made it impossible to view the site on legacy systems that do not support modern web browsers, and slowed down loading on modern web browsers because lots of code has to be executed before any content can appear on screen.
 ==References==