Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog

Post by direwolf20 » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 1:43 PM UTC

wolvoleo wrote: post #88

mr_mitm wrote: post #48

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There isn't one. As far as I know, no one really knows for sure how they bypass all these paywalls. (Most credible theory I heard: They actually just pay for the subscriptions.)

Most paywalls just allow search engines to read their content just fine. Because they do want discoverability, they want their cake and eat it. There's a few publications that don't even do that though and archive.is is very good at bypassing them so I do imagine they use logins for those, but for the masses of sites it's not currently necessary.

Post by cluckindan » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 1:44 PM UTC

Hamuko wrote: post #76

k33l0r wrote: post #72

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I use my ISP's default DNS servers and have consistently gotten the CAPTCHA page for weeks now. The CAPTCHA seems to be broken too, rendering archive.today entirely inaccessible.

Someone has suggested that CAPTCHA is broken for everyone in Finland.

Post by cluckindan » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 1:45 PM UTC

parable wrote: post #53

This likely means nothing, but the .is webmaster seems to have some sort of existing issue with Finland (where gyrovague is from), see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011955 . I thought I would point it out. Also, as someone interested in OPSEC and OSINT as a hobby, I find the measures taken by the .is webmaster, especially the dedication to setting up countless fake accounts for each persona, to be very intri…

Post by chrisjj » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 2:04 PM UTC

direwolf20 wrote: post #100

dannyw wrote: post #89

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Archive.org is run by a registered nonprofit instead of what’s likely a sole maintainer, who while I personally appreciate, does seem to go a little unhinged sometimes (like the dispute with Cloudflare DNS).

This also makes it susceptible to government pressure. It's easy to get a page taken down from archive.org and it won't archive anything paywalled.

Post by chrisjj » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 2:12 PM UTC

blenderob wrote: post #93

chrisjj wrote: post #58

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What's your problem with that theory?

Has people's ability to read messages and formulate sensible replies been going down of late? I see this kind of meaningless replies more and more often these days.