Comment by cluckindan
1 day ago
Maybe not, but it could be using your browser as a part of a DDoS network. The admins have also been tampering with archived articles.
1 day ago
Maybe not, but it could be using your browser as a part of a DDoS network. The admins have also been tampering with archived articles.
A DDoS against a blog that iirc was attempting to dox the archive.today maintainer.
The bit about tampering with archived pages is news to me though. Wish the wiki discussion included receipts. Is "two users report they were redirected to tehrantimes.com" what is being referred to when they say archived pages are being tampered with?
It looks like the "tampering" was mostly just removing the username of the person submitting the links, so they wouldn't get banned by paywall sites, and archive.today has always done this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment...
And it looks like in some instances they changed their own alias to the name of the blogger they're in dispute with, in a fit of pique.
You have to scroll down to get hints because the conversation has been redacted, and the evidence is not provided with side-by-side comparisons.
I understand the ethical concerns about linking to the site but the blanket accusations of "tampering" seem a bit disingenuous, since no article content was ever changed afaik.
In addition to that kind of “benign” tampering, there was also tampering other webpages to insert the name of the person who was doing the exposé on archive.is. Either to slander that person further (in addition to the DDOS archive.is was already attempting) or to dox the person.
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Not mine, UBlock has blocked that since day one, thankfully
DDoSing who? Doesn't CORS help here?
cors stops the browser from reading the response but the request still gets processed by the server
Browsers use OPTIONS preflight request to do CORS validation. Servers shouldn't do too much work in an OPTIONS request. Should be a simple if statement, no db operations, which is usually where the bottleneck is.