[jconnop]

Firefox + ublock origin here, no captcha.

[gruez]

Same here. Firefox (RFP enabled) + ublock origin + VPN + Cookie autodelete (so no google cookies) and no captcha. I suspect it's mostly based on IP reputation.

[kristianp]

Are you logged into Google, or have been recently?

[jconnop]

Yes I have an active google login. It's a sad state of affairs if that's the deciding factor.

[neurostimulant]

I'm not logged in to google (I only logged in to google on chrome and use firefox for personal browsing) but I do have Privacy Pass extension installed. I haven't see cloudflare captcha for a long time ever since I installed Privacy Pass.

[drewg123]

I have an active google login also.

I wonder if it was the fact that I'm running firefox on FreeBSD.

[loeg]

Chrome on FreeBSD here (I got the captcha as well); could be some kind of user agent test that trips on anything that isn't the big 3.

[dijit]

That was the case for me 2 weeks ago. I didn’t even get a captcha.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22109969