Tor browser connects.
QB using TTB's user-agent gets a captcha.

They were both going through the same privoxy and tor instance when I tested this.

TTB must be doing something else that advertises what it is, which seems slightly suspicious to me.

And this is me posting from TTB.

Yes, there is something different going on. To confirm, check the headers and you'll see this:

I got a 404 on that link. I'll look into it a bit more though.

Add a slash to the end of the URL. That is pretty embarrassing that they can't handle a missing slash.

OK.

This is a bit of weird workaround. I wouldn't trust them at all and I certainly don't want my connections going through their onion service.

One work-around which can be done from the LQ side would be to offer LQ also as www.torproject.org/docs/tor-onion-service.html.en]an Onion service[/url]. It is almost trivial to set up. That would not require changing anything on ports 443 or 80 which could still go through that vile Cloudflare thing, until a solution is found for that, too. Running an Onion service would then allow reliable access via Tor independently of the other methods.

Edit: more feedback: the link above is getting munged by some processing on LQ. I've posted it correctly several times and it keeps getting re-formatted as you see it above.

For what it's worth, I was just blocked by clownfare using a direct connection and Chromium version 73.0.3683.75 (Developer Build) in another part of LQ. No need for Tor, clownflare is blocking everybody now. I'm out until that is able to be fixed. For some reason the LQ Suggestions & Feedback section is not blocked.

you did not mention privoxy in your initial post.
since nobody seems to be getting captchas with TOR & LQ, i'd say that is the bit that makes cloudflare balk.

I did say a few posts later that as soon as I set privoxy to connect direct and not through Tor I had no captchas.

We've explicitly whitelisted Tor. Note that we've had some issues with Tor exit nodes and spammers in the past, and will continue to evaluate.

--jeremy

How exactly do you whitelist people? Is it only by IP, or are you actually looking for something in the headers?

I haven't changed any settings here, but for the past couple of days I've been blocked by captchas.

Note that we haven't whitelisted "people" in any way, but have explicitly ensured that Tor exit nodes are not blocked. This only applies after post #26 was posted.

--jeremy

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Thank you, Jeremy.

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Ah. No. Its done.