A_norny_mousse

It seems that in some cases (piefed) my post only appears as a bump on a previous post, without my additions, so here they are as a comment: 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: setInterval(function() { fetch("https://gyrovague.com/?s=” + Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 3 + Math.random() * 8), { referrerPolicy: “no-referrer”,… Far too many netizens still try to ignore this or even come up with reasons why gyrovague is the bad guy here. Alternative archive pages: archive.org ghostarchive.org archivebox.io (self-hosted) But how else to bypass a paywall? I’ve read relevant articles and clicked old links - they all seem to be history. The only ones that still work just look for the article in various archives - the subject of this post always amongst them. The same applies to this article, but there’s still some good tips. Here is the original article from 2023: https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/ and what Patakallio has to say about it today: The post mentions three names/aliases linked to the site, but all of them had been dug up by previous sleuths and the blog post also concludes that they are all most likely aliases, so as far as “doxxing” goes, this wasn’t terribly effective. Here is a relevant ArsTechnica article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/ Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. archive.today (.ph, .is, .md, .fo, .li, .vn) also loads a pixel and javascript from mail.ru. The script mentions lamoda.ru, kommersant.ru, dzen.ru, ad.mail.ru, vk.com, vkontakte.ru, ok.ru, odnoklasseniki.ru. I haven’t researched this further, but I think one can assume that your IP address will be spread across all relevant Russian websites. 10 years ago I would have said “so what? The Russians have social media too” but today you can safely assume that all this data is available to the government itself and is actively contributing to the hybrid war. All in all, archive.today has always been in the “too good to be true” category. Call me suspicious. And once again because it’s important: The Wikipedia guidance points out that the Internet Archive and its website, Archive.org, are “uninvolved with and entirely separate from archive.today.”

Both sides are complete dicks. From what I understand, the “poor victim” was the initial asshole No, the first article totally endorsed archive.today: https://web.archive.org/web/20231119194615/https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/ He ends it with announcing that he will buy them a coffee.

The linked article is nothing more than incompetent Fair enough, it wasn’t very good. But rn it seems like I (and also the writers of that article) was proven right to be leery of archive.xx Any info that goes to any Russian website these days can be considered going straight to the government, and therefore harmful, fueling their hybrid war. In your linked, older comment you repeatedly state that it’s only trackers and counters, but you should also mention that each time this happens a visitor’s IP is stored somewhere along the article they clicked on and who knows (I cannot decipeher minified js) what else.

Me too, but then you can’t get over the captcha. That way, archive.today used to work without js, but not anymore.

AI agents are remarkably bad at “self-awareness” 🤔 what does it say when you tell it something like “look, this is wrong, and this is why, can you please fix that”? In a general sense, not going into technical aspects like what OOP is describing.