Anyone else get infinite challenges (when using Firefox + VPN) to prove you are a human when you are just trying to read a link at archive.is?
Anyone else get infinite challenges (when using Firefox + VPN) to prove you are a human when you are just trying to read a link at archive.is?
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Stillwater@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
Not infinite but I do get a couple in a row as it seems to redirect around a few domains (.today, .is, .ph)
who@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1y
Even if you get past the loop, the fact that archive.is is now using third party CAPTCHAs means that their provider can track your interests: They can correlate the page you came from, the archived content you wanted, your browser fingerprint, your IP address if not using a VPN, etc. If it's a big provider like CloudFlare or Google (spoiler: it is) they can also correlate all that with a significant chunk of your non-Lemmy web browsing.
This is why I no longer use archive.is.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Are there any alternatives?
who@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y
The best one I know is https://web.archive.org/
Unfortunately, no archive site manages to archive every article before a paywall goes up. I've had the best luck on archive.org by selecting the earliest snapshot they have.
artifex@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1y
When this happens to me it’s usually a cloudflare problem. Sometimes it fixes itself in a day or two. A few times it has been broken for weeks and I’ve had to use a VPN to reach it.
SheeEttin@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y
It's probably because you haven't proven you're a human to their satisfaction. Do you have Firefox's privacy settings turned way up? You may need to set an exception. If you block too much and are mixed in with a bunch of other clients, you look like a bot.
Undertaker@feddit.org · 0 pts · 1y
If that's the case, you don't need an exception but use other websites. Never lower privacy settings if something like thus occurs
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
If you change one or the other does it fix it?
And what extensions are you using? Anything in firefox that would exacerbate the problem?
lock@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
I am not getting prompted any captcha when I visit the site.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
What VPN?
lock@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
I was using Tor.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Tte prove that you are human thing work with a mouse movement tracker, if you move the mouse to straightline or calculate movement to the checkbox, the algorritm supposed a bot. But normally this issue you have is due to some extension, browsersetting or security soft. In Vivaldi I checked it in a guest profile, this putt the browser to the default settings and without extensions. I think in Firefox there will be a similar methode to check it, otherwise desactive the extensions one by one and clear the cache.