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.
this is why i like to disable Javascript if its not necessary using noscript.
Me too, but then you can’t get over the captcha.
That way, archive.today used to work without js, but not anymore.
i think its recaptcha?