This shouldn’t be necessary. We changed our handling of Tor so long ago that I’ve forgotten how long go it was. If you are using the Tor Browser Bundle you should not see a CAPTCHA. If you do please report it to us.
As someone who sees it constantly on sites using Cloudflare....
This shouldn’t be necessary. We changed our handling of Tor so long ago that I’ve forgotten how long go it was. If you are using the Tor Browser Bundle you should not see a CAPTCHA. If you do please report it to us.
What's special about Tor Browser Bundle? What would I need to configure to use it with another browser?
and The Tor Projects response to that: https://blog.torproject.org/trouble-cloudflare They have been in this dispute with each other for a long time.
blog.torproject.org uses an invalid security certificate. This site uses HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to specify that Firefox may only connect to it securely. As a result, it is not possible to add an exception for this certificate.
Certificate is valid for me using Safari (expires October 7th).
Walk into a bank with a face mask on, and see how they react. Same principle here.
You should be able to walk up to a vending machine with a face mask on. That's a more apt analogy.
It's even worse: Tor protects only the source IP address, while leaving personally identifiable information like login, email, credit card numbers, browser configuration, screen resolution etc untouched.
An analogy? Being required to show you passport to use a vending machine.
and The Tor Projects response to that: https://blog.torproject.org/trouble-cloudflare They have been in this dispute with each other for a long time.
blog.torproject.org uses an invalid security certificate. This site uses HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to specify that Firefox may only connect to it securely. As a result, it is not possible to add an exception for this certificate.
You may be behind a corporate firewall that is blocking access to the site.
Those Google captchas are horrible. Often they do not let one of through despite giving seemingly correct answers. One is prompted with captcha after captcha after captcha. They not only require cookies, but JavaScript turned on and are a real affront to the whole idea of a usable, open web. On tor, I just give up. There is nothing I want to see on the internet badly enough that I'm willing to spend ten to fifteen minutes (this is not an exaggeration) trying to guess what I'm supposed to click on. I do blame cloud flare, ignorant website creators, but most of all Google. Out of the many atrocious products they have created, nothing is more infuriating and frustrating than these stupid captchas. They are not logical and quite often simply unsolvable. I support the creation of bots that can guess (because that's what the process is, there's no solving these) these even if it comes with all the downsides of having such bots roam freely on the internet. I hope the ai of the future is able to deal with such nonsense to the point where Google gives up on this atrocious technology. I'd rather have spam and ddos attacks than this.
Eh, I really doubt that it's designed to punish people who aren't tracking. Tracking makes users much more valuable, but the average legitimate user who isn't being tracked is still probably net positive value, so it wouldn't make sense to just block them outright. I think the problem is that a very high percentage of malicious behavior online comes from Tor, certain IP ranges, VPNs, scrapers that don't run Javascrip…
Cranky nerd here. I've tried to use Tor to access websites for legitimate purposes and found much of the web has become unusable recently. But perhaps you need a motivating example, since you don't think there's any value in supporting Tor! I'll give you some. - Security researcher wishes to contact an organization about a security hole in their site or product, but doesn't know if they'll be sued, so they want to pr…
You need to provide fiscal value or convince the operations team of legitimate companies to not treat Tor as a bad apple. It may not be right but money is the only motivating example that matters to companies.