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Re:Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archi... by delusional on Saturday February 21, 2026 @02:23AM (#47098356)
This is quite an interesting question. For a single datapoint, I happen to have access to a VPN that's supposedly in Finland, and connecting through that didn't make any captcha loop appear on archive.today. The page worked fine.

Now it's obviously possible that my VPN was whitelisted somehow, or that the GeoIP of it is lying. This is just a singular datapoint.

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Re:Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archi... by fear-anger-hate on Saturday February 21, 2026 @03:22AM (#47098641)
As another datapoint with Finnish IP from Mullvad VPN: CAPTCHA loop and indeed after solving first CAPTCHA this can be found in page source:

setInterval(function(){fetch("https://gyrovague.com/tag/"+Math.random().toString(36).subst...",{ referrerPolicy:"no-referrer",mode:"no-cors" });},1400);

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Re:Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archi... by hnlmorg on Saturday February 21, 2026 @03:25AM (#47098665)
It’s also pretty common for VPNs to have exit nodes physically located in different counties to where they report those IPs (to GeoIP databases) as having originated from.
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Re:Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archi... by BoredPositron on Saturday February 21, 2026 @04:21AM (#47098974)
VPNs usually don't tell you much about residential experiences.
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