alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
Infinite Google ReCAPCHA loop trying to access archive.is using current Firefox from Linux. Just started today. Firefox is in "strict" mode. Disabled Privacy Badger for that site, and it didn't help. Tried private browsing, and it didn't help.
Is this part of Google's war against ad-blocking and non-Chrome browsers?
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It doesn't work in Chrome either (please complete CAPTCHA/yes you're valid/repeat), it might be a config issue on archive.is (Firefox latest windows, Chrome 151 windows - guest/null profile on both) rather than a war move.
Yup, I get stuck in a loop.
Sometimes the audio recaptcha works. But, most of the time I can't understand the garbled audio.
Closing the tab always resolves the problem.
archive.today doesn't use a real recaptcha, the cloudflare page isn't real either. it serves that as a punishment for using 1.1.1.1 DNS because the owner doesn't like that 1.1.1.1 doesn't send EDNS client subnets.
I frequently have this issue with Safari in private browsing.
This has been happening since many months.
because of my privacy settings google search outright blocks me as a bot. the only way to search is through an intermediary like startpage. related because if it does give me the time of day i tend to then get endless captchas.
Not sure about Firefox but lately, if I access Google from Safari on my Mac with Apple's private relay on and private mode Safari, I get an endless captcha loop.
It's an archive.is issue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#2026_attack_on_G...