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archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog (gyrovague.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this is why i like to disable Javascript if its not necessary using noscript.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Me too, but then you can't get over the captcha.

That way, archive.today used to work without js, but not anymore.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 month ago

i think its recaptcha?