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Has anyone else the problem that they get endless captchas and no way to use archive.ph? Or maybe knows a solution.

Edit: This is on Firefox and with uBlock Origin only. It works with the same setup in my VM however.

Edit2: Changing DNS (to NextDNS in my case) worked.

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Don't use 1.1.1.1 from Cloudflare, disable the Cloudflare resolver in Firefox, or turn off Private Relay on Apple+/iOS. Those are the usual suspects.

Huh, that was it. Changing to NextDNS already works. That's a weird one. Thank you for your suggestion!

Archive.is and Cloudflare have a long-standing feud over EDNS Client Subnet support. Archive.is refuses to serve Cloudflare DNS users and Cloudflare refuses to work around it.

I have that problem but it probably some something to do with some combination of browser addons I have installed. When I launch the link in a Private Firefox window they seem to work.

Weirdly, this only happens for me in Chrome despite using the same extensions there that I use in Firefox. I initially fixed the problem in both browsers by switching my DNS provider from Cloudflare to Quad9 (which also noticeably improved network performance more than I'd ever expect a change in DNS provider to do so), but then the problem returned in Chrome, and since Firefox is my daily driver, I haven't bothered to figure out why just yet.

Originally, it had something to do with how Archive.today handles Cloudflare's EDNS configuration. Now, though, it appears that it might be caused by something else.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#Cloudflare_DNS_a...

Yes... this has been a problem for a while now for a lot of people.

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