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(49,916 posts) Wed Mar 5, 2025, 04:25 PM Mar 5

Using the Internet archives to post subscribed stories

When I put the URL in the archives I first have to check that I am not a robot.

And then I am faced with these idiotic photos divided by square to mark all the ones that have cars, or crosswalks, or bikes...

Does this happen to others, too?

By the way, I don't know how to post from scratch. I started with an archived story that someone posted and since then I have been using existing ones, just changing the URLs...

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Using the Internet archives to post subscribed stories (Original Post) question everything Mar 5 OP

I get it from other archive sites. archive.ph, archive.md and so on usonian Mar 5 #1

usonian

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1. I get it from other archive sites. archive.ph, archive.md and so on

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Wed Mar 5, 2025, 10:10 PM

Mar 5

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I switched my browser to Waterfox from Firefox and it is using a different DNS server.
It's cloudflare or some other intermediary doing this.
I HATE CAPTCHAS.

I'll adjust my settings. I might have to back off to Firefox or Safari..

UPDATE: Switching back to Firefox cleared it up. Waterfox has more security, and cloudflare OF COURSE objects. For the good that cloudflare does, it curses us with captchas.

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2025/02/googles-anti-bot-recaptcha-acts-like-spyware-report-claims.html

As of today, ONLY archive sites pull this stunt. A whole raft of others do not.

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