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The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

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The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

Internet Archive (@archive.org)

Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable. We are working on it & will post updates in comments.

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It might be that someone wanted to change something that was on a website before the archive could get to it too.
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  That’s a ridiculous amount of effort to go through to slow down a scraper for one site, especially when that site could just be… turned off.

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