archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog
gyrovague.com
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 b…
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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/jpatokal on 2026-02-01 05:20:24+00:00.

This is sufficiently bizarre that I’m linking to the full writeup on my blog instead of trying to explain everything here in detail, but TL;DR, archive.today (yes, the guerrilla archiving site we all love) is abusing its users to conduct a DDOS attack against a blog post they want to take down. Irony can be pretty ironic, eh?