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arczatoday at 2:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

Doesn't this guy's server just DDoS some dude's blog with your own browser? Didn't click.


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javawizardtoday at 2:21 PM

Yes, and: If I recall correctly, cloudflare is sinking all the extra traffic for him, so it doesn't actually impact him.

Last I heard it's a morally objectionable thing at this point rather than something that's having any practical impact.

(Which of course doesn't make it ok... I'm just a little less inclined to judge people that still use archive links when needed.)

gradientsrneattoday at 7:44 PM

Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805

The archive.today domains have also poisoned DNS lookups from some privacy-preserving DNS providers, and in rare cases have been caught tampering the archive data. Make of that what you will.