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Stop linking to malware sites please.

First, it's not a malware site, it won't harm you or you machine in any way. I don't agree with their recent attempt to ddos, but linking to them doesn't encourage that, you are using their service for free, think of it as a punishment.

Second, if you really think it's wrong to link to that archive, you ought to provide another link, unencumbered by walls. When such is lacking, anything is better than none.

What do you mean? Could you expand on your answer?

I assume they are referring to an incident where their captcha page was updated to perform web requests from the client machine to a particular blog because the author had been trying to uncover their identity. You can search "archive.today ddos" for reporting on it.

Here's the post by the victim;

https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-...

They were targeted because of this unmasking attempt, there was discussion on it;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009598

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