Sites that use reCAPTCHA/Turnstile/etc. have already been broken for me for years now due to neverending captcha/refresh loops.

My ISP regularly changes everyone's IP, and I apparently share an ISP with people who suck, so I get flagged just trying to do all sorts of normal things. Some examples:

- I've never bought anything from Etsy but I'm somehow banned from even viewing their site at all.

- Discord immediately bans me any time I try to create an account.

- Can't buy flights from Delta, always gives a non-descript error.

- Can't buy concert tickets, it thinks I'm a fraudulent buyer.

- Most CF sites produce a "Sorry, you have been blocked" page, or just loop.

- Trying to buy products on a shopping cart will have my order silently flagged/canceled for "VPN usage" (I don't use one).

- Some sites/programs block me for being on the DroneBL or similar lists I did nothing to get onto, and have verified many times that it's not really coming from me.

I just take my business elsewhere... eventually I'll probably just stop using technology at all.

> Sites that use reCAPTCHA/Turnstile/etc. have already been broken for me for years now due to neverending captcha/refresh loops.

I had this problem recently with the Indeed website. (Cloudflare Captcha)

Thanks to someone on Reddit, it was discovered that anyone using a Chromium based browser (Brave, Vivaldi, etc.) on Linux was being punished.

Awfully frustrating having to set up a Virtual Machine just to be able to access one website via Firefox since even my hardened Firefox was being punished.

Almost would bet one or a few of your ISP's customers have their connections being used as residential VPNs.

I know people like to think of suspicious android box setups but even a lot of "free" apps, extensions and other such services scarily seem to do that duty these days. I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here, but its sad how many people will use some free of cost vpn and not even think why that might be.

This is why I ended up paying extra for a static IP from my ISP. While they always provided me with a public IP outside a CGNAT, I guess whole IP blocks were being targeted by these web security providers.

I guess my ISP allocates static IPs from a separate pool, and probably my IP block neighbors are better behaved (probably SMBs and other fellow nerds), aside from platforms learning that my IP is safe.

Captcha difficulties are way down now.

Turnstile feels bad as a user. Every site that I’ve seen it long will lock up Safari hard while it’s doing whatever it’s doing. But at least I haven’t run into more than 2 refresh loops.

I have not been able to visit AliExpress for months now. Just an endless reCAPTCHA loop.

I wonder if they are seeing a decrease in traffic and somehow find that acceptable.

Oh man I feel you. I turn my VPN off on certain sites due to the captcha loop.

Wouldn't a 1£ Linux VM as Wireguard access point suffice?

whenever I can't access a website for various stupid blocks

I fire up cloudflare warp and walk right through it

use wireguard with wgcf in environments without cloudflare client

yeah it's stupid we have to do this in 2026 but I guess cloudflare is the new AOL garden