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The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2026
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FYI archive.is will turn your browser into a botnet node to attack others
Man, what an absolute rabbit-hole this turned out to be. This comment from a lobste.rs post seems to have a timeline of the whole ordeal. This seems to be the blog post that kicked everything off. Calling that doxxing strikes me as making a mountain out a molehill. The blog author found some names attached to domain registration (if the registering individual didn't want those public then they should've enable domain privacy), inferred the archive.is site admin's location to maybe Germany, maybe Eastern Europe, maybe Russia (based on publicly accessible forum posts), noted that it's a one-man show that can't possibly cover its own costs and may not exist in the future, and even offered to support the archive.is admin:
And for that the archive.is admin changed their site to hijack visitors into a DDOS botnet against the blog site. That is some crazy work.
Archive.is came out of gamergate as a tool to enable kicking women out of video game journalism. It's not shocking that the person who controls it behaves badly. They're also by far and away the most reliable way to hand out a paywall bypass. Which completely stinks
Except that they have been caught altering the content of some pages that they had archived. Those alteration were part of the above linked grudge/DDOS with lobste.rs linked by another user above. Since they did it once, it makes me suspicious of pages loaded from them as I cannot be confident that they wouldn't again change a snap-shot's content.
They're also the only ones who mean that people don't need to register to access the NYT right now