Archive.today used vistor's browsers to DDoS, and modified archive contents

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I haven't seen this discussed here yet. Wikipedia has decided to deprecate archive.today links because the site has been observed using the browsers of visitors to conduct a DDOS attack on the blog of an individual. Perhaps more troubling, archive.today modified archived versions of articles to insert the individuals name into the context of the articles.

Previously, nearly a thousand comments across several stories: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=archive.today

"Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805

"Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?" "I noticed this, like, 3 days ago) started automatically making requests to someone's personal blog on their CAPTCHA page" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740

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