Comment by rsaarelm
19 hours ago
Archive.today does not seem to have worked for people connecting from Finland since mid-January, it just gives an endless captcha loop. Is this related to whatever this drama is?
19 hours ago
Archive.today does not seem to have worked for people connecting from Finland since mid-January, it just gives an endless captcha loop. Is this related to whatever this drama is?
I would assume so. I can see from my browser history that i succesfully submitted captures to archive.today on 7th of January, but failed to do so starting from 12th of January. IIRC they contacted gyrovague around the 10th so seems unlikely to be a coincidence. Applies to VPNs as well. Tried first with a VPN located in Finland and it gets endless captcha loop, then with a Swedish VPN which let me through to the front page after solving one captcha.
It seems that the website has been blocked in Finland since at least August of 2023, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011955.
I definitely used it from Finland last year. It was blocked some time in th past since the owner was mad at Finnish authorities, but at some point that was revoked.
Even the post you linked acknowledges this:
>he blocked the entire site in Finland, although later he lifted the block
My apologies, I clearly missed that. If I could edit my post, I'd change it to "It seems that the website has been blocked in Finland in the past, though the block was later lifted."
I’d give it a high probability, especially when the CAPTCHA loop is the bit of the site that causes the DDoS and the fact that the admin seems to consider all Finns nazis.