Captcha loop for me as well today, though I think it has worked in the past.
I'm on plain old firefox, no issues or captchas at all.
Do you use CloudFlare DNS by any chance?
thank you thank you thank you! I had CloudFlare's DNS set up as my first ones in my list, and I got stuck in the Capthca loop. I replaced them with 4.2.2.2 and 8.8.8.8 and no more!
Works for me. No captcha. Not using a VPN, on my work wi-fi on my android phone. Using chrome
Home wifi. No VPN or DNS. Never works for me.
Edit: Switched from Firefox with UBlock Origin to Chrome without adblocker and it worked.
I'm on Firefox with ublock origin and it works fine. There is a setting in both Firefox and Chrome called "secure DNS" which will block access to archive if it is set to use cloudflare as dns provider. I think firefox uses cloudflare by default but chrome might not.