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by gabeio 296 days ago
? I use firefox all of the time and I don’t believe I have been marked as a “bot”? I rarely hit website captchas/browser checks. Do you have anything to read that says otherwise?
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I use Firefox and have a VPN turned on most of the time, so I'm not sure which one's causing it, but I do occasionally get a Cloudflare page saying they've determined I'm a bot. Not captcha or anything, I'm just blocked from seeing the content.
Without a VPN, you get Google captchas.

Some times Google just decides you can not pass no matter what you do, but you still get the captchas.

I have no issues with Google captchas but CF just gives my Firefox install an endless spinner with no option except to contact them and provide them all the details that they couldn't collect automatically to "debug" the issue.