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

Joe Btfsplk joebtfsplk at gmx.com
Mon Jul 18 00:03:33 UTC 2016


On 7/14/2016 4:49 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote:
> That is really awesome! :-) Thanks for the update.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Kate Krauss < kate at torproject.org
> [kate at torproject.org] > wrote:
> I don't say much on Tor-Talk, but I will say this:
>
> Thanks, Medium, for removing all those CloudFlare captchas for Tor
> users. As an activist from East Africa once reminded me, the Internet
> means *all* of the Internet. Otherwise it isn't quite itself--it is
> meant to be accessible and comprehensive; a nearly inexhaustible catalog
> of the world.
>
> Thank you for helping out.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kate Krauss
>
> --
>
Huh?  Did I miss something?  As of late, I haven't noticed CF captchas 
disappeared, or worked any better in Tor Browser.
Are you talking about a special case?

Sometimes, in Firefox on the same site I may not get any captcha, a few 
minutes after trying a couple of times in TBB.
If it's a trustworthy site (if there's such a thing) & JS is allowed for 
all necessary 3rd parties on the site, the captchas will either work in 
the 1st 1 or 2 tries in TBB, or they won't at all.
And in Firefox, where I have a lot of blocking addons, it almost always 
works w/ JS allowed on just the base domain.


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