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Is there a Firefox add-on that removes the DDoS code on archive.ph? (feddit.org)
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[–] exussum@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Archive.ph would then be susceptible to DDOS attacks.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Could someone explain what is happening here? Does Firefox have a builtin protection against DDOS specifically for Archive.ph? And why does it have it, why this specific site? Is there a protection for other sites too? I'm a bit confused here why Firefox itself would DDOS the site.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When you visit archive.ph, your computer is used to DDoS a critic of archive.ph.

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How?

[–] exussum@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

A browser is just another network program. An add-on can do it, a program that can bypass protections can be written. Such an add-on would be used as an example to achieve that.