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.
Another example why Unlock Origin should be considered essential security software, not just an “ad-block”.
UBlock helps to stop that script.
Would that be by default, or do I need to enable something specific
It’s by default easylist-privacy list is default
from what I heard, the default one is enough. Although I haven’t checked it
I don’t know more than what the wiki article linked to. It says UBlock blocks it. It doesn’t say any more than that.
makes sense, I didn’t get it when people started saying it but I don’t browse without ublock
I would be happy to contribute some browser action to ddos some fucking mercenary blog working for tech parasites.
An archive site that alters content in the archive is worse than worthless.
The DDoS is just confirmation that the site is actively harmful.
has it been proven that they alter archived content? haven’t heard that before
From the article:
There is consensus to immediately deprecate archive.today, and, as soon as practicable, add it to the spam blacklist (or create an edit filter that blocks adding new links) and remove all links to it. There is a strong consensus that Wikipedia should not direct its readers towards a website that hijacks users’ computers to run a DDoS attack (see [WP:ELNO#3]). Additionally, evidence has been presented that archive.today’s operators have altered the content of archived pages, rendering it unreliable.
Evidence was presented here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5#Evidence_of_altering_snapshots
well, that is sad. thanks for the info
