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archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog (gyrovague.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal blog. All users encountering archive.today’s CAPTCHA page currently load and execute the following Javascript:

Posting this here since the dispute was started over a PII concern.

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[–] 2 points 6 months ago*

Both sides are complete dicks. From what I understand, the “poor victim” was the initial asshole

No, the first article totally endorsed archive.today: https://web.archive.org/web/20231119194615/https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/

He ends it with announcing that he will buy them a coffee on buymeacoffee.

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