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Didn't happen to me (but it has before). Instead I got a huge modal popup about something, which I didn't read, so I hit `back` immediately.

archive.[is,ph,li,fo,vn,md,today] is like a condom for crappy websites like that.

archive.* has some really strange dns-based tracking built in

Elaborate? Are you talking about the whole cloudflare ecs debacle?

if you load archive.<x> it will load a cache-busting specific-to-you dns name

your.ip.address.foo.lots.of.stuff.pixel.archive.<x>/pixel.gif

that gets by most blacklists including umatrix and others

and they have a new domain name dujour so that too.

Anything on Archive.* fails to resolve for me for this reason; I just don't bother clicking their links anymore either.