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 b…

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.

  • Mwa@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    13·
    13 days ago

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

    • pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      91·
      13 days ago

      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·
        13 days 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.

  • Jazz Cabbage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    13 days ago

    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·
      12 days 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.