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(52,388 posts) Wed Mar 25, 2026, 11:13 PM Mar 25

Have to complete a security check to access the archives?

At least, on Firefox, not Safari.

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Have to complete a security check to access the archives? (Original Post) question everything Mar 25 OP

If you mean archive.today, archive.is, archive.md and others in that family, it's basically bot protection. usonian Mar 26 #1

usonian

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1. If you mean archive.today, archive.is, archive.md and others in that family, it's basically bot protection.

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Thu Mar 26, 2026, 12:48 AM

Mar 26

I hate captchas, and have two extensions that solve captchas. It's quite the site to see one or the other solve them.

Almost everyone has bot protection. Not just hackers but G.D. LLM's scraping the web mercilessly. They have somewhat destroyed the internet. (DU uses Cloudflare but Never puts up a CAPTCHA.)

As for browsers, one might be routed differently from the other, as in vpn, or iCloud Private Relay or the phone network, and there are different defenses put up for various networks. Don't ask. That's all I can surmise.

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