Any good archiver will check for an archived copy before making a request, and batch requests. This was very different than the attack you’re imagining — if you opened any archive.today page, it would poll a developer’s personal blog, regardless of whether you were interacting with content from that blog.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 5 days ago
Bro any archiving/scraping tool can be used for ddos u just tell it to archive the same site over and over and now u have a different IP spamming the endpoint
CombatWombat@feddit.online 5 days ago
m3t00@lemmy.world 5 days ago
don’t know all the details. fyi basically. i forget where i saw the same site mentioned for the same thing. don’t call me bro Bro
dan@upvote.au 5 days ago
In this case, their CAPTCHA page intentionally included code to DDoS a particular blog.