Disclaimer: This is not technically a privacy matter for the reader, but I believe it is adjacent and important enough for this community.
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: setInterval(function() { fetch("https://gyrovague.com/?s" + Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 3 + Math.random() * 8), { referrerPolicy: "no-referrer",…
Far too many netizens still try to ignore this or even come up with reasons why gyrovague is the bad guy here.
Alternative archive pages:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archivebox.io (self-hosted)
But how else to bypass a paywall?
I've read relevant articles and clicked old links - they all seem to be history. The only ones that still work just look for the article in various archives - the subject of this post always amongst them. The same applies to this article, but there's still some good tips.
Here is the original article from 2023: https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/ and what Patakallio has to say about it today:
The post mentions three names/aliases linked to the site, but all of them had been dug up by previous sleuths and the blog post also concludes that they are all most likely aliases, so as far as “doxxing” goes, this wasn’t terribly effective.
Here is a relevant ArsTechnica article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS.
archive.today (.ph, .is, .md, .fo, .li, .vn) also loads a pixel and javascript from mail.ru. The script mentions lamoda.ru, kommersant.ru, dzen.ru, ad.mail.ru, vk.com, vkontakte.ru, ok.ru, odnoklasseniki.ru. I haven't researched this further, but I think one can assume that your IP address will be spread across all relevant Russian websites. 10 years ago I would have said "so what? The Russians have social media too" but today you can safely assume that all this data is available to the government itself and is actively contributing to the hybrid war.
All in all, archive.today has always been in the "too good to be true" category. Call me suspicious.
And once again because it's important:
The Wikipedia guidance points out that the Internet Archive and its website, Archive.org, are “uninvolved with and entirely separate from archive.today.”
I disagree with your disagreement :p
It is a common manipulative method of praising something right before landing a substantive blow on it as a way lending your argument credibility.
Anonymouse has the most wonderful posts I have ever read, however I believe in this case he is down playing the threat to the owner of Archive.today that is represented by doxing them. Snowden isn't hiding in Russia because he loves the weather. Assange didn't hide in the Columbian Embassy because he liked their exercise bike. There's a reason that the person who released the Panama Papars is only know as John Doe. And why can't Francesca Albanese's bank cards no longer work. Amongst the powerful elites are psychopaths.
Acting as if doxing someone who undermines the elite's grip on PR is some benign act and irrelevant to the owner of archive.today's reaction is a leading distortion of the reality of the situation.
What exactly do you call "doxxing" here?
What do think doxxing is?
So you avoid my question, together enough reason to block you.
Is there some evidence of this doxing?
Gyrovague's blog
Yeah you clearly didn't read the original article.
There is no "substantive blow", he ends it with announcing that he will buy them a coffee on buymeacoffee.
You responses are most helpful and you are, no doubt, a charming fellow however you don't seem to understand that doxing can be a very serious problem for some people. Maybe I'll buy you a coffee!?