alt Hacker NewsArchive.today does not seem to have worked for people connecting from Finland since mid-January, it just gives an endless captcha loop. Is this related to whatever this drama is?
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parable • yesterday at 9:18 AM
It seems that the website has been blocked in Finland since at least August of 2023, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011955.
Hamuko • yesterday at 10:47 AM
I’d give it a high probability, especially when the CAPTCHA loop is the bit of the site that causes the DDoS and the fact that the admin seems to consider all Finns nazis.
I would assume so. I can see from my browser history that i succesfully submitted captures to archive.today on 7th of January, but failed to do so starting from 12th of January. IIRC they contacted gyrovague around the 10th so seems unlikely to be a coincidence. Applies to VPNs as well. Tried first with a VPN located in Finland and it gets endless captcha loop, then with a Swedish VPN which let me through to the front page after solving one captcha.