mad_asshatter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoThe Internet Archive is under a DDoS attackbsky.appexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1993arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1989arrow-down1external-linkThe Internet Archive is under a DDoS attackbsky.appmad_asshatter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square59fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaregirsaysdoom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down2·9 months agoIt might be that someone wanted to change something that was on a website before the archive could get to it too.
minus-squareKairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·9 months agoThat’s a ridiculous amount of effort to go through to slow down a scraper for one site, especially when that site could just be… turned off.
It might be that someone wanted to change something that was on a website before the archive could get to it too.
That’s a ridiculous amount of effort to go through to slow down a scraper for one site, especially when that site could just be… turned off.