Tell HN: Archive.is/ph/md/etc. is redirecting me to HTTPS:// rurtnews – com

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a year ago

This started happening in the past couple hours.

At first, I thought my browser (Firefox ESR 128.8.0) might have been compromised, but I couldn't locate anything malicious.

I searched around and only found one discussion about this. A reddit thread[0] which mentions the exact same behavior:

1. Attempt to archive a page;

2. Get confronted with a CAPTCHA;

3. Before I can even finish doing the CAPTCHA and clicking submit, the page redirects to https:// rurtnews . com, which is Russia Today/RT.

Anyone else experiencing this aside from me and a half-dozen redditors?

I'd note that I was able to get the redirects to stop and archive.org to work properly (well, except for the CAPTCHAs -- but those are pretty much every time now for the past month or so) by setting[1]:

   accessibility.blockautorefresh = true

It's a poor work around, but until I figure out what's going on, it will have to do.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1jkr4pz/archivetoday_redirecting_to_a_weird_russian_news/

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1327430

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43490467

Edit: This is archive.today (archive.is/ph/md/etc.) not archive.org. Fixed the title. Thanks for setting me straight r721[2]!

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