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Re:American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn by caymanjim on Thursday June 04, 2026 @12:16AM (#48393749)
Well, for one, it wants me to scan a QR code as a captcha.
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Re:American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn by dredmorbius on Thursday June 04, 2026 @01:33AM (#48394404)
That is an issue you can pin on Google:

<https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-goog...> (8 May 2026).

HN discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067119>

Though yes, Archive.is have continued using reCaptcha despite this recent change.

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Re:American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn by kxrm on Thursday June 04, 2026 @12:24AM (#48393824)
I chose the audio option to get around this.
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Re:American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn by jghefner on Thursday June 04, 2026 @12:25AM (#48393831)
Me too, and ain't no way I'm doing that. That's blocklist behavior.
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Re:American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn by themafia on Thursday June 04, 2026 @12:19AM (#48393777)
I've never once had that happen. It's always straight to the unrolled article.
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Re:American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn by dredmorbius on Thursday June 04, 2026 @01:34AM (#48394410)
See: <https://cybernews.com/privacy/google-qr-code-recaptcha-requi...>

Or my earlier reply to this subthread.

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