archive.org and archive.is/.ph/.today/... are two totally different websites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

Noticed the same thing this morning 6AM (CEST).

VPN on and attempting to reach any archive.ph url -> CAPTCHA page -> redirect to RT after about 5 seconds.

I'd add that other browsers (presumably with autorefresh disabled), even Firefox (not ESR) on other systems aren't seeing this behavior.

Very odd.

Edit: I take that back. Firefox 135.0 is redirecting as well. However, Palemoon, Chrome and Edge are not doing such redirects. It seems like this may be limited to browsers (perhaps just firefox) with auto-refresh enabled.

Late reply here. It seems that archive.today has gotten their act together and fixed the redirects to rurtnews dot com.

That was annoying.

Can confirm (Chrome)

Status Code: "429 Too Many Requests" - > Refresh: "5;url=https://rurtnews.com/"

I guess it's spam/bot filter is accidently blackholing everyone to RT

And I hate to have to say it, but RT would have been chosen by Archive as a joke.