onehundredsixtynineFeb 20

English Wikipedia bans archive.today

https://sh.itjust.works/post/55635221

English Wikipedia bans archive.today - sh.itjust.works

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Show threadQuacksalberFeb 20
Archive.today apparently hijacks visitor’s browsers to DDoS a blog that tried to uncover the identity of the archive’s admin. UBlock helps to stop that script.
Show threadOtterFeb 20

UBlock helps to stop that script.

Would that be by default, or do I need to enable something specific

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from the blog in question

On January 21, commit ^bbf70ec (warning: very large) added gyrovague.com to dns-blocklists, used by ad blocking services like uBlock Origin. This is actually beneficial, since if you have an ad blocker installed, the DDOS script’s network requests are now blocked. (It does not stop users from browsing to my blog directly.)

- https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/

can’t find anything from a quick look that confirms this list is used by default in ublock though

Feb 20 at 2:21pmWeb
Show threadPumaStoleMyBluffFeb 20
I don’t see that particular list, but the same filter is present in is present in EasyPrivacy from EasyList, which is enabled in uBO by default.
Show threadkipFeb 20

nice one, cheers. it’s there in line 16607 in EasyPrivacy, same guy runs btdig dot com?

||gyrovague.com^$domain=archive.fo|archive.is|archive.li|archive.md|archive.ph|archive.today|archive.vn|btdig.com
Show threadWhyJiffieFeb 21
I’ve read that somewhere else too, could be