r/Seattle mods discover malware injection by archive.today, ban site

Re:r/Seattle mods discover malware injection by archive.toda... by eyya on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:32PM (#50283898)

You have to hang out on Epstein Island to find buyers for metadata. Have you heard of any small indie projects with this kind of business model? Maybe PirateBay, Sci-Hub, Flibusta? I haven't. That's why I'm sure CloudFlare is selling your metadata (and not just that), but the archive isn't. Simply because it doesn’t fly that high. Banners, pop-unders, pop-ups—what people here like to call “malware”—yes, that’s it. Just a normal pirate website with too many too cheap visitors and an unpassable captcha and a pop-under as the result.

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Re:r/Seattle mods discover malware injection by archive.toda... by consumer451 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:47PM (#50283999)

What makes you think that archive.today is any kind of indie project?

Isn't just the scale of cost indicative that is not aligned with anything close to indie?

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Re:r/Seattle mods discover malware injection by archive.toda... by eyya on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:51PM (#50284016)

comparable to the 3 websites mentioned

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Re:r/Seattle mods discover malware injection by archive.toda... by consumer451 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:56PM (#50284061)

Is it really? Archive.today is like archive.org. Archive.org is around 30M/year at least, we know those costs and the funding is open. Does that sound indie on the .today side? Who is funding that?

You are really defending .today, and you mentioned Flibusta.

Well, now we now who. Сердечный приве. I look forward to our eventual reunion my Slavic brothers and sisters. We all left our imperialist moron leaders behind, so will you. I cannot wait for the peace and prosperity to come.

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Re:r/Seattle mods discover malware injection by archive.toda... by eyya on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:49AM (#50284990)

30 million is on the scale of Pirate Bay, slightly less than Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload (150M), and 3–4 orders of magnitude smaller than Facebook. So yes, by my definition, archive.org is a small, indie project as well still operating out of someone’s garage.

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Re:r/Seattle mods discover malware injection by archive.toda... by consumer451 on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:11PM (#50305988)

How could running TPB come close to approaching even 1M per year, much less 30M? My estimate for TPB is far below 100k/year. That's an indie project. 30M per year is real money that requires constant investment. Investors like ROI.

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Re:r/Seattle mods discover malware injection by archive.toda... by eyya on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:28PM (#50321621)

This information came to light thanks to the Swedish judicial system: TPB’s revenue was $4–5 million per year, plus something on Bitcoin's grow as they were early adopters. Thus, archive.org falls somewhere between TPB and Megaupload. I agree that archive.today is perhaps just a little smaller than archive.org, but in any case, it’s in the same “indie league”, not Facebook.

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