HACKER Q&A
📣 matttah

Archive.is Captcha Problems Lately?


Anyone else having problems lately with archive.is taking you to a captcha, you solve it and then it just keeps redirecting you back to the captcha over and over. Happens to me in chromium, a friend just tried in firefox and had same problem.

Today is happening to me on a link from another thread which was to https://archive.is/gwuFp

  👤 alexolog Accepted Answer ✓
Captcha loop here as well. Both from FF and an ungoogled Chromium with no add ons that I keep just for these situations.

DNS is the unsecured quad9 9.9.9.10

Secure DNS is likewise https://dns10.quad9.net/dns-query

Console shows error 429

👤 WarOnPrivacy
In case anyone comes back to this. I noticed I get redirected to the archive.is domain and that's when I wind up in a captcha loop.

When I get captcha'd, the archive.is resolves to 198.23.187.186

I cleared my DNS server cache and got new IPs for archive.today and archive.ph but the same address for archive.is. I tried the OPs link, got redirected to .is and got captchas.

I cleared DNS server cache again and got 89.253.237.217 for .is (along with more new IPs for .ph and .today). No captchas.

👤 plssy
not a technical person, how can I fix this? turned off secure DNS, didn't work, changed IP to Google's, that disabled my WiFi...
👤 defrost
Check your DNS, there are issues using Cloudflare to reach archive.{is | li | today | etc }

Google DNS and others work where Cloudflare does not.

👤 riedel
Currently no luck on android using both brave and chrome.
👤 IndoorPatio
Yes, seems broken.
👤 retrocryptid
Yup. Me too. On Firefox.