Comment by userbinator

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has been hit by waves of high-volume automated traffic

Thank you for not immediately blaming it on "AI bots". I suspect there's some entity manufacturing consent for strong identity/age verification/sanctioned-browser-OS "walled garden" Internet, and these random DDoSes are part of that.

I knew something was up when a few alternative YouTube front-ends I use suddenly put up the 'nubis and complained about the high volumes of traffic they were getting flooded with; of course someone actually going after that data would be aiming their "AI bots" at YouTube directly instead of trying to suck it through a tiny little-known proxy-site, so it really strained the credibility of the argument.