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:

Posting this here since the dispute was started over a PII concern.

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    2 months ago

    this is why i like to disable Javascript if its not necessary using noscript.

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      27 days ago

      Me too, but then you can’t get over the captcha.

      That way, archive.today used to work without js, but not anymore.

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        27 days ago

        i think its recaptcha?