cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42232964

Not linking to archive(.)is because of malicious code there, but the article is available there if you run into a paywall.

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    12 days ago

    The archive.is owner seemingly added JavaScript code to the website and its mirrors that allocates a portion of user bandwidth to increase the hosting costs of a blog that doxxed him.

    Edit: The blog owner shared his perspective. Less of a doxx and more just repeating what other people had already found out. Implementing a DDoS attack against the website is an extreme response that highlights a form of platform abuse that could be directed at other websites in the future, and thus archive.is should only be used with uBlock Origin enabled to counteract it.