Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
I'm stuck in an infinite Google reCAPTCHA loop when trying to access archive.is using current Firefox on Linux. It just started today. I've tried disabling Privacy Badger for that site and using private browsing, but neither helped. Is this part of Google's war against ad-blocking and non-Chrome browsers?
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.
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.
- KomoD
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.
- selcuka
It's an archive.is issue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#2026_attack_on_G...
- gnabgib
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.