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points by Permik 1 day ago | 0 comments

The writing had been on the wall for a while. Hopefully this'll finally drive the usage of the site down.

[–] knowaveragejoe 1 day ago

What are the alternatives besides the IA?

[–] jaychandra68 12 hours ago

https://unwall.app/

[–] s_dev 1 day ago

https://periscope.corsfix.com/

[–] charcircuit 23 hours ago

I would recommend

https://ghostarchive.org/

[–] iam-py-test 14 hours ago

megalodon.jp is a good archive.

[–] LoganDark 1 day ago

Surprised that using visitors for DDoS attacks wasn't enough already.

[–] Hamuko 1 day ago

There's been quite a lot of people still defending the site. Basically "who cares about DDoS attacks and altering archived sites' content when it allows bypassing paywalls?"

[–] 1317 1 day ago

well, yeah

[–] LoganDark 1 day ago

Setting my user-agent to Googlebot in a private window bypasses most paywalls just fine. Surprised at how many sites aren't checking against the published IP ranges.

[–] worksonmine 1 day ago

The few people willing to change their user-agent aren't worth the extra complexity.

[–] john_strinlai 1 day ago

not sure why this is downvoted. they modified their captcha so that visitors contributed to a ddos against a blog, on top of a handful of other threats, tampering of archived data, etc.

they are not great people.

[–] burningChrome 1 day ago

As a personal vendetta against Jani Patokallio (a Finnish cybersecurity blogger) who was trying to unmask the person who ran the site - which goes back to 2023.

[–] MisterMunchkin 1 day ago

I don't really care about that though, because trying to dox someone and get them killed isn't a good or moral thing to do. You could easily just not do that. You have to really go out of your way to try and hunt someone down, and at any point you could just not do it. For the targeted person to want revenge is just an inevitability.

[–] cowlevel 1 day ago

Did you make an archive site we can use instead?

[–] linhns 1 day ago

Why do you need archive if you can disable JS for most website?

[–] cowlevel 1 day ago

So I can view the article

[–] john_strinlai 1 day ago

i can certainly spin one up, use your site visits to DDoS people i dont like, and secretly edit the archived content if you want? apparently that will win me an army of hn defenders.

so fucking strange that people are playing defense for that. even forgetting the DDoS part, people don't care that they are editing archived content? wild.

[–] cowlevel 1 day ago

Can you tell me the address of the site and I'll tell all my friends to use it instead of archive.today?

[–] AyyEye 1 day ago

Residential proxies DDoSing half the internet is standard operating procedure this decade and yet everyone still buys connected garbage and monetizes their apps this way.