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consumer451 | on: Archive.today links going forward
Archive.today = archive.is - which is added via comment on a huge percentage of posts on HN.

Link to comment explaining the discovery:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archivetod...

edit: Maybe I should have titled this "claim to have discovered" as there is no external verification, and no write up. I thought I should post this in any case.

shagie | parent | next
From historical posts on HN:

Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 (8 months ago, 366 points, 178 comments)

Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 (9 months ago, 140 points, 71 comments)

consumer451 | root | parent | next
For everyone's information: r/Seattle's mod team has stickied this technical debrief in response to this HN post. We are the "external site" that is kinda brigading them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archivetod...

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consumer451 | parent | next
To make my edit in the parent clear: HN mods have changed the title, to the exact title of the post reddit on r/seattle. This is understandable.

I always respect the "don't editorialize" rule, but felt that this was a special case as the post title is so sub-reddit specific. My original post title was along the lines of "r/Seattle mods discover archive.today injecting malware, ban site.

mahboi | parent | next
Version that doesn't require login: https://reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archivetoday_l...

I'm confused though, it says the site injected malware into its archived form. But the HN title says archive.today injected the malware.

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{"deleted":true,"id":50276139,"parent":50276020,"time":1793204308,"type":"comment"}
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vadansky | parent | next
TIL; I always thought it was part of archive.org and I never understood why people hated it. Now I get it
grimgrin | parent | next
no one can view old.reddit.com w/o being authorized. idk if you're aware, but it lost a lot of appeal as such. what i'm saying is, folks can view reddit.com w/o logging in, but not old.reddit.com
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consumer451 | root | parent | next
Thanks for the reminder. Theoretically, I know this, but it’s a really hard habit for me to drop.
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arprocter | parent | next
Looks like ClickFix impersonating GitHub

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClickFix

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abeyer | parent | next
Hmmm... any other day I'd think that I need archive.today to get past reddit's login wall to read that.
consumer451 | root | parent | next
You wouldn't have, if I could get out of the habit of posting old.reddit links.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archivetod...

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drusepth | parent
Maybe this will be enough to finally rule against paywalled submissions here on HN.
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