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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[–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago

But how else to bypass a paywall?

You could try looking to see if your local libraries give you access to those sources.

Besides that, I personally use Bypass Paywalls Clean the browser extension, but it also sometimes pulls the content from archive.today.

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