Tell HN: Exercise caution with links to archive sites
Some users comment on posts with links to various archiving sites containing copies of linked article. This is obviously welcome when linked article is a garden / behind paywall but often the article is perfectly readable with JS disabled and archive site requires running Google's, Cloudflare's JS code or worse.
Some archive sites - like archive.ph - attempt to run malicious code on viewers' devices. It seems that archive.ph's copies of various articles[1] all attempt to run at least a script from mail.ru domain that appears[2] to "harvest data from the page (references to "gender", "age", etc) and some shady-named variables like "bait". Also a function that fetches data from top-fwz1.mail.ru and then tries to submit a hidden 1px*1px form created in an iframe using this data (...)"
Some archive sites - like archive.ph - attempt to run malicious code on viewers' devices. It seems that archive.ph's copies of various articles[1] all attempt to run at least a script from mail.ru domain that appears[2] to "harvest data from the page (references to "gender", "age", etc) and some shady-named variables like "bait". Also a function that fetches data from top-fwz1.mail.ru and then tries to submit a hidden 1px*1px form created in an iframe using this data (...)"
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30669851