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

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  • prirun
    I've used vultr.com for years with no problems. Recently it wouldn't let me login without solving a Google captcha. I tried private windows, etc and ended up having to cancel my Vultr account and ask for a refund. Fortunately I only used them to spin up test VMs and didn't have any production stuff running there.I refuse to pay a company for service and then be required to identify motorcycles and traffic lights every time I sign in. I went a few rounds with Vultr customer service and they said (paraphrasing) "It's not something we can fix, you have to talk to Google about it". Right... Google forced you to put their captcha on your web site.
  • high_na_euv
    Yes. For months it ocurres every time when I opened Google in private mode, then it stopped and recently appeared even on phone
  • selcuka
  • VCFundedGenYer
    I've seen weird situations where I'm objectively solving the captcha correctly yet it still doesn't recognize it as correct.At this point captchas need to be completely removed everywhere. They aren't effective and just waste time.
  • elric
    Constantly. It's made me stop using Google entirely because I can't run a single search without hitting reCAPTCHA. It's becoming problematic because some services I pay for, such as Bandcamp, also end up pestering me with boatloads of reCAPTCHAs. I enjoy Bandcamp, but I'm going to have to axe it if it keeps up.
  • johnnyApplePRNG
    reCAPTCHA actually works for me. The one that asks if it's a sidewalk or a motorcycle or whatever right?cloudflare bot detection has convinced itself I am a bot however (I do a lot of automated web related stuff on my home IP) and that's been an eye opener for sure... I can't enjoy a good 20% of the internet it seems like now.Doesn't matter how many times I click that cloudflare button, they don't believe me.And I've been signed in to my cloudflare account (which I've held in good standing with a live credit card for years) the entire time :/
  • 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.
  • Barbing
    Neat, threads and comments can be reposted [by admins/mods?]:https://i.ibb.co/Q7qTtK16/Image.jpgNote I posted the comment only once a day ago. Thread ID seems the same, but old timestamp is visible in my profile. Important issue for information freedom, HN relevant, so it’s back new on the front page?Edit: good job Social-Protocols, its graph accommodates this unexpected (to me) scenario: https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=49555592
  • kotaKat
    Dunno, but is anyone else continuing to seem to get what feels like 3-4 minute reCaptcha challenges? I’m getting mentally exhausted having to try to solve the super blurry pick-the-streetlights they keep throwing at me in loops.It feels like I have to go slowly through it only for it to eventually end in a “please try again” as I sit and wait ten seconds for each square to slowly fade in a new stupid bus for me to click.How is this fair to the humans?
  • fransje26
    I also have the same issue in Firefox, Chromium and Vivaldi on Linux.I tried searching the interweb for a cause/fix, but couldn't find anything sensible in the flood of low-quality SEO hijacking webcrap returned by multiple search engines. So I asked AI.The claim is that it could be caused by the blocking of some DNS providers (NextDNS, Quad9, ..), and it suggested using a VPN or phone tethering.And lo and behold, both suggestions worked, without any browser setting changes.It's very annoying and inconvenient.
  • Barbing
    Archive.today / Archive.is / Archive.ph issues the past few days. Safari Private w/iCloud Private Relay. See the enterprise free tier exceeded messaging: This site is exceeding reCAPTCHA Enterprise free quota. That’s new, but problems/loops aren’t.
  • adrian_b
    I do not think that this is Firefox specific, more likely is is something Linux specific.For me, hCaptcha has stopped working immediately before last weekend, regardless of the site that uses it.It goes in an infinite loop, despite solving correctly all challenges.On Linux, I have tested with 2 browsers, Firefox and Vivaldi, and the browser did not make any difference. I do not use any ad blockers, nor any non-standard extension.So I think that they deployed a version update last Friday, which for some reason is broken on Linux.It would not be surprising if both hCaptcha and Google ReCAPCHA have made some similar changes, so now they are both broken on Linux.Meanwhile, some other "Captcha" applications from other vendors, which are used on other sites, still work like before.
  • ck2
    I've found two things that sometimes allow me througheither change the user-agent to the newest version for WINDOWSand/or use cloudflare warp which is technically a free non-privatizing VPNon linux you can use warp via wireguard + WGCF* reddit.com/r/CloudFlare/comments/ty9hke
  • wastedpotencial
    Since last month I've been CAPTCHAed in many Google searchs in Firefox. I assumed either a local device was spamming them or maybe Codex/Claude web search was flagging me as a bot.So is this CAPTCHAing because I refuse to navigate the ad-infested way? How can I rule out a problem on my end if my router is ISP provided with limited functionality ?
  • realslimjd
    I frequently have this issue with Safari in private browsing.
  • WaasilaAsif
    Yes. And even after solving the recaptcha it just wont accept and after multiple attemots even if it accepts it just goes on to display it all over again
  • nosioptar
    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.
  • globalnode
    because of my privacy settings google search outright blocks me as a bot. the only way to search is through an intermediary like startpage. related because if it does give me the time of day i tend to then get endless captchas.
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  • n4pw01f
    One interesting thing I found recently was after enforcing geo-fencing, recaptcha intermittently started failing. They might be using global edge servers or something
  • busymom0
    Not sure about Firefox but lately, if I access Google from Safari on my Mac with Apple's private relay on and private mode Safari, I get an endless captcha loop.
  • ectoloph
    I've found that I can often stuck in tarpits on Safari for iOS with Wipr and iCloud Private Relay.The worst trigger is searching Google from the address bar.Loading the homepage first makes the problem notably less common. Or getting a couple wrong.
  • KinetiNode
    Yes , it (somehow) worked for me when I used VPN for a few days before not working again
  • jeroenhd
    Strict mode has always been broken for me. Firefox replaces some of Google's tracking scripts with no-ops but that usually breaks Google's reCAPTCHA on my end. I have to disable tracking protection to make reCAPTCHA sites work.I think it's fair for Google not to fix Firefox's shims, so I don't know who to blame for this. I doubt it's part of some big conspiracy against Firefox, though. I don't think Google cares enough about Firefox to bother annoying Firefox users.Archive.is has had downtime this weekend when I tried to use it. They also regularly pull shady stuff, so I wouldn't be surprised if they did something stupid again and got themselves banned from reCAPTCHA.
  • rmortyh
    I have been seeing this, but it depends on my originating IP. I switched my house from Spectrum to T-mobile and then started getting ReCAPTCHAs on Firefox. Going out through another Spectrum connection on the same machine doesn't trigger the ReCAPTCHAs. It happens far, far less with chrome but it does still happen.
  • thrust26
    Anyone else getting this?Ich bin kein Roboter. Diese Website überschreitet das kostenlose reCAPTCHA Enterprise-Kontingent.I am not a robot. This website has exceeded the free reCAPTCHA Enterprise quota.
  • dathinab
    works for me, with uBlock Origin enabled, one captcha solve was enoughbut .... my user agent is way more finger printable then it should (e.g. has the Linux x86_64 part) so that might make the difference.
  • bflesch
    This has been happening since many months.
  • europoorean
    Yes. I use Firefox in Linux, with or without private window. Switch to Chrome to test and voilà, all good.
  • nora-puchreiner
    The open secret: the CAPTCHA wasn’t actually being checked against Google’s servers; any answer was accepted as correct – until yesterday, when someone armed with this knowledge launched an AI crawler. Now it’s being checked, so you’ll have to solve it.
  • mcv
    Can we just get rid of reCaptcha? It was fun when it was new, but now it's just pointless busywork to let Google know who we are. Does it do anything other than that? I don't for a minute believe bots can't solve that anymore.
  • OutOfHere
    PubMed and PMC use Recaptcha and it's atrocious. It never works with Firefox. It keeps looping even when filled correctly.NIH support staff is even worse as they refuse to acknowledge the issue and reply with a scripted useless response.If I remember correctly, Recaptcha doesn't work on GrapheneOS either which is a separate issue.
  • kphorn
    https://youtu.be/4VrLQXR7mKU“Um, I know this may be a very personal question, but is it possible that you…could we say…may be…a Robot?”
  • Hamuko
    If you're seeing an infinite CAPTCHA loop on archive.is, it's more likely that you're on the operator's shitlist than any technical issue. All Finnish IP addresses are on that shitlist already.
  • pessimizer
    I don't think it has anything to do with google, it's an intermittent issue on the archive sites that usually clears out within an hour or two. You're being successful, then being bounced back out again.Also firefox from linux. Just leave the pages open and refresh them every 20 minutes or so.
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