Pastebin.com

By October 2011, the site's active pastes numbers exceeded 10 million.

• In July 2012, the owners of Pastebin.com tweeted that they had surpassed the 20 million active pastes mark.{{Cite tweet |number=220410523840286720 |user=pastebin |title=Time for cake!!! Pastebin.com now hosts more than 20 million active pastes! Stats -> pastebin.com/stats |date=July 4, 2012 |author=Pastebin }}

• On June 9, 2015, they announced they had reached 65 million active pastes.{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/pastebin/posts/1072434209437854|title=Pastebin on Facebook: "Pastebin reached another big milestone yesterday..."|website=Facebook|publisher=|access-date=December 3, 2016|archive-date=August 30, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230830040029/https://www.facebook.com/pastebin/posts/1072434209437854|url-status=live}} They also mentioned that around 75% of pastes are either unlisted or private.{{Cite tweet|number=614326465551839232|user=pastebin|title=Fun fact, over 75% of all pastes created on Pastebin these days are unlisted or private.|date=June 25, 2015|author=Pastebin}}

• In December 2015, Pastebin.com reached 95 million active pastes, and more than 2 million members.{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/16/pastebin-the-text-sharing-website-updates-with-an-emphasis-on-code/|title=Pastebin, The Text Sharing Website, Updates With An Emphasis On Code|first=John|last=Biggs|date=December 16, 2015|publisher=|access-date=September 7, 2017|archive-date=September 23, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200923134413/https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/16/pastebin-the-text-sharing-website-updates-with-an-emphasis-on-code/|url-status=live}}

During the 2014 Venezuelan protests, Pastebin.com was blocked by the country's government as one of the sites used by activists sharing information pertaining to the protests.{{cite news |author= |title=Internet a crucial Venezuela battleground |url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Internet-a-crucial-Venezuela-battleground |newspaper=Jamaica Observer |location=Kingston, Jamaica |agency=Associated Press |date=February 23, 2014 |accessdate=August 20, 2014 |archive-date=November 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113103321/http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Internet-a-crucial-Venezuela-battleground |url-status=live }}

In April 2020, Pastebin.com removed their built-in search feature and restricted their web scraping API, including for paid lifetime subscribers of Pastebin Pro. As an additional spam prevention measure, pastes from users not logged in are hidden from the list of recent pastes, visible in the site's side bar.{{cite web |title=Pastebin Made It Harder To Scrape Its Site And Researchers Are Pissed Off |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3m83v/pastebin-made-it-harder-to-scrape-its-site-and-researchers-are-pissed-off |website=www.vice.com |date=April 16, 2020 |language=en |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=February 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227085334/https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3m83v/pastebin-made-it-harder-to-scrape-its-site-and-researchers-are-pissed-off |url-status=live }}

In September 2020, two new features were added to the site. Users became able to password-protect pastes from viewing and request the paste be deleted immediately once viewed.{{Cite web|last=September 2020|first=Anthony Spadafora 28|title=Pastebin may have just doomed us all|url=https://www.techradar.com/news/pastebin-may-have-just-doomed-us-all|access-date=September 30, 2020|website=TechRadar|date=September 28, 2020|language=en|archive-date=September 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929073205/https://www.techradar.com/news/pastebin-may-have-just-doomed-us-all|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=online|first=heise|title=Pastebin.com: Zwei neue Features könnten Malware-Machern in die Hände spielen|url=https://www.heise.de/news/Pastebin-com-Zwei-neue-Features-koennten-Malware-Machern-in-die-Haende-spielen-4913844.html|access-date=September 30, 2020|website=Security|language=de|archive-date=September 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930002820/https://www.heise.de/news/Pastebin-com-Zwei-neue-Features-koennten-Malware-Machern-in-die-Haende-spielen-4913844.html|url-status=live}}

On October 14, 2020, the terms of service were updated and the mention that contributions were CC BY-SA was removed.{{Cite web |title=Pastebin.com Terms of Service UPDATED |url=https://pastebin.com/doc_terms_of_service |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014191902/https://pastebin.com/doc_terms_of_service |archive-date=14 October 2020 |url-status=dead}}

Pastebin.com is a popular source of .onion links that lead to the dark web.{{cite news|last=Koebler|first=Jason|title=The Closest Thing to a Map of the Dark Net: Pastebin|website=Motherboard|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/9akgxy/the-closest-thing-to-a-map-of-the-dark-net-pastebin|accessdate=July 14, 2015|date=February 23, 2015|archive-date=November 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108163041/https://www.vice.com/en/article/9akgxy/the-closest-thing-to-a-map-of-the-dark-net-pastebin|url-status=live}}

Since 2014, a majority of the pastes on Pastebin.com are hacked accounts or leaked gift cards.{{cite web |last=Wang |first=Abigail |url=https://www.pcmag.com/news/pastebin-is-a-waste-bin-of-compromised-accounts |title=Pastebin Is A Waste Bin Of Compromised Accounts |website=PCMag |date=March 6, 2014 |access-date=February 4, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116015345/https://www.pcmag.com/news/pastebin-is-a-waste-bin-of-compromised-accounts |archive-date=January 16, 2021 |url-status=live}}{{original research inline|date=January 2025}}

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• {{Official website|https://pastebin.com/}}
• [https://github.com/lordelph/pastebin Original source code]

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