[tor-talk] Medium removed the captchas for Tor users!

Joe Btfsplk joebtfsplk at gmx.com
Wed Aug 10 00:54:51 UTC 2016


On 8/8/2016 8:53 PM, Sadiq Saif wrote:
> On 08-Aug-16 21:42, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
>> I still don't know what those statements were about.
>> I've seen no change in Cloudfront captchas working better for Tor.
>> Meaning, they don't work at all.
>>
>> Even major news outlets using CloudFlare, where I'd like to read
>> controversial articles don't work w/ Tor Browser.
>> Haven't for the longest time, regardless of having JS enabled.
> The OP was referring to a specific site - Medium.com (using Cloudflare)
> that was previously presenting captchas to Tor users and is no longer
> doing so (this is an option in Cloudflare site settings that you can
> enable).
>
> It was not a statement on the general usability of Cloudflare's captchas
> for Tor Browser users.
>
Thanks for clarification.  For a minute, I thought I was the only one 
unable to access CloudFlare sites.


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