Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?

24•Animats•5h ago

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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nosioptar•5h ago

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•2h ago

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.

foresto•42m ago

What do you mean by "a real recaptcha"? I just went to an archive.is page, and it's trying to load a script from www.google.com. Doesn't Google still own reCAPTCHA?

selcuka•19m ago

> On 14 January 2026, it emerged that archive.today had silently modified its CAPTCHA page to send repeated requests to Gyrovague, thereby causing visitors to unwittingly contribute to a DDOS attack against the blog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#2026_attack_on_G...

gruez•39m ago

They're definitely trying to mimic the cloudflare captcha page, but...

>archive.today doesn't use a real recaptcha

How? It's loading the script from google, and the images/responses are from google to.

bflesch•42m ago

This has been happening since many months.

realslimjd•39m ago

I frequently have this issue with Safari in private browsing.

gnabgib•26m ago

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.

selcuka•20m ago

It's an archive.is issue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#2026_attack_on_G...

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