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The captcha on this page takes a few seconds then says "Failure", with no message, then restarts itself, when using Tor Browser on the Safer mode.

edit: Was able to get a mix of a few successes and a few failures upon multiple browser restarts. Maybe I was lucky to avoid a discriminated exit node? I'm not sure if IP address is a factor here.

Testing that link just now with Tor, it seemed to pass their checks ok.

Hopefully blocking Tor users will mostly be a thing of the past... :)

Interestingly, although my Firefox ESR passed the test, that page immediately made my laptop's fan spin up (normally only does that on media-heavy pages) - possibly thr "proof of work" test they mention in the article?

I find that happens with canvas/webGL blocked on pages which try to use it.