I am not getting prompted any captcha when I visit the site.
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2025
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What VPN?
I was using Tor.
Not infinite but I do get a couple in a row as it seems to redirect around a few domains (.today, .is, .ph)
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.
Are there any alternatives?
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.
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.
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?
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.
If that's the case, you don't need an exception but use other websites. Never lower privacy settings if something like thus occurs
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.