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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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[–] Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Link to a post a while back about archive.is (and other archive.* sites) sending data to Russia. Post discusses this article

[–] pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The linked article is nothing more than incompetent, bad-faith fearmongering. It has already been debunked in this comment. Long story short: literally every request mentioned in this article is blocked by any ad blocker with default settings, which you should be using anyway.

[–] Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Thanks very much for the link. Appreciate your research and explanation. Always grateful to learn from others. Have a PiHole and use uBlock. Thanks again.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Victim blaming may not be the answer you think it is.

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