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archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog (gyrovague.com)
submitted 2 days 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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[–] jazz_cigarette@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm a bit of a troglodyte, I had to look up what PII referred to.

Whoever is doing the responding and the petty bullshit with the captcha stuff isn't doing themselves any favors by being a gland end unnecessarily. I'm not really curious as to who is behind the archive website so the blog authors need to unmask them is lost on me admittedly. I do use the paywall bypass site, but given the person's responses I'll try not to use it at all going forward, for however much that actually makes a difference.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

There have been a bunch of posts and articles about this. I don't know why it keeps getting reposted on lemmy tbh. Both sides are complete dicks. From what I understand, the "poor victim" was the initial asshole and both sides have kept escalating it.