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Do these links have anyone else stuck in an infinite captcha loop? For about a week now any time I try it just refreshes the page and I have to try again. I nev

Do these links have anyone else stuck in an infinite captcha loop? For about a week now any time I try it just refreshes the page and I have to try again. I never get to the article.

lsaferite 3y ago
I have neatwork-level DNS Ad blocking and I'm fairly certain that's causing me to have the same issue. If I use my phone on wifi, I get blocked, if I switch to LTE then it works fine. Edit: And I have too much going on in life to track down exactly which blocklist is causing the issue
- Waterluvian 3y ago
  Ah yeah that might be it. Thanks for the clue, I’m going to track it down.
gurumeditations 3y ago
It’s private relay for me.
pplante 3y ago
In my experience this only happens when I am using Cloudflare DNS. Something about their geolocated resolvers is incompatible with how the archive team thinks they should be.
- fragmede 3y ago
  something like copyright laws that archive contravenes which makes serving content from the wrong servers a problem.
heymijo 3y ago
I had the same issue using Firefox on MacOS. DNS over HTTPS is enabled by default and was at the root of my problem. I needed to add these sites to the exception list: archive.is, archive.today, archive.ph That got me out of captcha purgatory.
dredmorbius 3y ago
Yes, for some months now: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148681> It comes and goes, though seems to be an issue more often than it isn't. At the moment I can get through, that's not been the case for the past week or so generally.... This has a marked impact on HN discussion which already suffers from failure-to-read TFM at the best of times, as I've mentioned multiple times to dang both in comments and via email. I've also written both A.T. and C.F. concerning this, as the problem appears to be an interaction between the two, neither of whom appear to have much interest is solving what's clearly a problem.

Do these links have anyone else stuck in an infinite captcha loop? For about a week now any time I try it just refreshes the page and I have to try again. I never get to the article.

lsaferite 3y ago

I have neatwork-level DNS Ad blocking and I'm fairly certain that's causing me to have the same issue. If I use my phone on wifi, I get blocked, if I switch to LTE then it works fine. Edit: And I have too much going on in life to track down exactly which blocklist is causing the issue

Waterluvian 3y ago
Ah yeah that might be it. Thanks for the clue, I’m going to track it down.

gurumeditations 3y ago

It’s private relay for me.

pplante 3y ago

In my experience this only happens when I am using Cloudflare DNS. Something about their geolocated resolvers is incompatible with how the archive team thinks they should be.

fragmede 3y ago
something like copyright laws that archive contravenes which makes serving content from the wrong servers a problem.

heymijo 3y ago

I had the same issue using Firefox on MacOS. DNS over HTTPS is enabled by default and was at the root of my problem. I needed to add these sites to the exception list: archive.is, archive.today, archive.ph That got me out of captcha purgatory.

dredmorbius 3y ago

Yes, for some months now: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148681> It comes and goes, though seems to be an issue more often than it isn't. At the moment I can get through, that's not been the case for the past week or so generally.... This has a marked impact on HN discussion which already suffers from failure-to-read TFM at the best of times, as I've mentioned multiple times to dang both in comments and via email. I've also written both A.T. and C.F. concerning this, as the problem appears to be an interaction between the two, neither of whom appear to have much interest is solving what's clearly a problem.