Infinite "prove you are a human" loops on archive.is with Firefox + VPN?
from CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 20 Jul 23:24
https://lemmy.world/post/33242183

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?

#privacy

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Stillwater@sh.itjust.works on 21 Jul 00:01 next collapse

Not infinite but I do get a couple in a row as it seems to redidirect around a few domains (.today, .is, .ph)

SheeEttin@lemmy.zip on 21 Jul 00:57 next collapse

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 on 21 Jul 20:33 collapse

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 on 21 Jul 01:04 next collapse

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?

artifex@piefed.social on 21 Jul 02:05 next collapse

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.

who@feddit.org on 21 Jul 03:04 next collapse

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 on 21 Jul 15:33 collapse

Are there any alternatives?

who@feddit.org on 21 Jul 20:16 collapse

The best one I know is 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.

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 21 Jul 03:06 next collapse

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.

lock@lemmy.ml on 22 Jul 04:27 collapse

I am not getting prompted any captcha when I visit the site.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 15:51 collapse

What VPN?

lock@lemmy.ml on 23 Jul 04:59 collapse

I was using Tor.