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
[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]!