Comment by cluckindan
3 days ago
Please don’t use these sites, they alter archived content and use visitor browsers as a ddos botnet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...
3 days ago
Please don’t use these sites, they alter archived content and use visitor browsers as a ddos botnet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...
Then I'd have to ask of publishers please don't use subscription oriented paywalls. I'd be happy to pay for an article here and there. I do not want to understand your subscription model, compare benefits between "tiers" of subscriptions, or think about how to cancel when I eventually realize I'm not getting the value I hoped for.
This is the price of that dark pattern. These sites wouldn't exist if they acted like publishers instead of retailers.
Most digital subscriptions to large news organizations are in the order of $5 - $10/month.
If you can't afford 16¢ a day, then you have bigger problems.
If you don't want to pay monthly because you find it inconvenient, well boo hoo. Just do without. The world, and its journalists, don't owe you anything.
I find the exercise of buying a car to be tedious. That doesn't justify me just driving one off the lot without paying.
Except it's not one subscription, it's a subscription to whatever today's post links to. It sums up.
Same reason Netflix had massively reduced video piracy, and that piracy being back nowadays.
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they alter archived content and use visitor browsers as a ddos botnet.
Interesting. I'm surprised I didn't notice it on HN. From Wikipedia:
In January 2026, archive.today added code into its website in order to perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a blog.[2] This code uses the computers of visitors of the site to repeatedly send requests to the blog, with the goal of overwhelming the blog's ability to handle legitimate traffic. The code is still present as of 5 June 2026, but has been modified to reduce the frequency of malicious calls. [3] On June 12, at least two users reported their requests were redirected to tehrantimes.com. Some common ad blockers, such as uBlock Origin, are currently stopping these malicious requests. It was later discovered that archive.today tampered with archived web pages.[4] It was also later discovered that this was not the first DDoS attack Archive.today has performed.