It's the effect of Archive.is banning Cloudflare for not giving up Client Subnet information. The end result is being directed to CF despite Archive.is not being behind them and thus one getting into captcha loops.
On a fun side note, the admin of Archive.is that is here on HN read my blog on how to block their site with 2 IPTables rules and updated their nodes in Russia to a more standard MSS of 1460 and added some more CIDR blocks. I assume the rest of their nodes will follow soon. Well played.