Comment on Substack won't let me in without verifying age, and VPN doesn't work; any ideas?
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days agoDid u know the captcha page of archive.is is doing a ddos on some random blog?
Comment on Substack won't let me in without verifying age, and VPN doesn't work; any ideas?
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days agoDid u know the captcha page of archive.is is doing a ddos on some random blog?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 days ago
When I first read your comment I figured it was some weird bug in the site. But the truth is so, so much weirder.
Wow, I read through the HN comments on that and it is just wild. Allegedly posted by the archive.today owner themselves, outing the fact that they were doing a DDOS. Allegations that archive.today is run by Kremlin operatives, or by the FBI, or that all of this has come out as the result of some sort of a dead man switch for…some reason. And talking about past drama with Cloudflare. And the alleged doxing that initiated all of this…even though it’s nearly 3 years old now. And is the doxer actually there in the HN comments, or is that a troll impersonating them?
Anyway, it doesn’t seem to be doing it anymore.
Screenshot of Firefox Developer Tools’ Network tab, on archive.is’ reCAPTCHA page. The search is filtered for “gyro”, and shows “No requests”