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I've not seen any evidence of them editing archived pages BUT the DDOSing of gyrovague.com is true and still actively taking place. The author of that blog is F

I've not seen any evidence of them editing archived pages BUT the DDOSing of gyrovague.com is true and still actively taking place. The author of that blog is Finnish leading archive.today to ban all Finnish IPs by giving them endless captcha loops. After solving the first captcha, the page reloads and a javascript snippet appears in the source that attempts to spam gyrovague.com with repeated fetches.

mmooss 8mo ago
How do you know that? Did you see it (do you have a Finnish IP?)?
- delusional 8mo ago
  This is quite an interesting question. For a single datapoint, I happen to have access to a VPN that's supposedly in Finland, and connecting through that didn't make any captcha loop appear on archive.today. The page worked fine. Now it's obviously possible that my VPN was whitelisted somehow, or that the GeoIP of it is lying. This is just a singular datapoint.
  - fear-anger-hate 8mo ago
    As another datapoint with Finnish IP from Mullvad VPN: CAPTCHA loop and indeed after solving first CAPTCHA this can be found in page source: setInterval(function(){fetch("https://gyrovague.com/tag/"+Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,3+Math.random()*8)+"/ https://gyrovague.com/tag/"+Math.random().toString(36).subst...",{ referrerPolicy:"no-referrer",mode:"no-cors" });},1400);
  - hnlmorg 8mo ago
    It’s also pretty common for VPNs to have exit nodes physically located in different counties to where they report those IPs (to GeoIP databases) as having originated from.
  - BoredPositron 8mo ago
    VPNs usually don't tell you much about residential experiences.
- stuffoverflow 8mo ago
  Yes I have Finnish IP and just before I wrote that post I tested it to make sure it was still happening. I assume it must be a blanket ban on Finnish IPs as there has been comments about it on Reddit and none of my friends can get it to work either. 5 different ISPs were tried. So at the very least it seems to affect majority of Finnish residential connections.
  - mmooss 8mo ago
    > just before I wrote that post I tested it to make sure it was still happening That's awesome. I wish everyone made sure of their facts. Thanks.
verteu 7mo ago
> I've not seen any evidence of them editing archived pages There is evidence of this in the article you're commenting on.

mmooss 8mo ago

How do you know that? Did you see it (do you have a Finnish IP?)?

delusional 8mo ago
This is quite an interesting question. For a single datapoint, I happen to have access to a VPN that's supposedly in Finland, and connecting through that didn't make any captcha loop appear on archive.today. The page worked fine. Now it's obviously possible that my VPN was whitelisted somehow, or that the GeoIP of it is lying. This is just a singular datapoint.
- fear-anger-hate 8mo ago
  As another datapoint with Finnish IP from Mullvad VPN: CAPTCHA loop and indeed after solving first CAPTCHA this can be found in page source: setInterval(function(){fetch("https://gyrovague.com/tag/"+Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,3+Math.random()*8)+"/ https://gyrovague.com/tag/"+Math.random().toString(36).subst...",{ referrerPolicy:"no-referrer",mode:"no-cors" });},1400);
- hnlmorg 8mo ago
  It’s also pretty common for VPNs to have exit nodes physically located in different counties to where they report those IPs (to GeoIP databases) as having originated from.
- BoredPositron 8mo ago
  VPNs usually don't tell you much about residential experiences.
stuffoverflow 8mo ago
Yes I have Finnish IP and just before I wrote that post I tested it to make sure it was still happening. I assume it must be a blanket ban on Finnish IPs as there has been comments about it on Reddit and none of my friends can get it to work either. 5 different ISPs were tried. So at the very least it seems to affect majority of Finnish residential connections.
- mmooss 8mo ago
  > just before I wrote that post I tested it to make sure it was still happening That's awesome. I wish everyone made sure of their facts. Thanks.

verteu 7mo ago

> I've not seen any evidence of them editing archived pages There is evidence of this in the article you're commenting on.