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luke.a.reade
luke.a.reade

Everytime I restart and open firefox and then try to access facebook, sometimes google, n=some news websites and probably other apps, I get a captcha, but it repeats no matter how many times I get it right.

I was advised to do this, but it's still happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fX0_wiVKhw

But even that's stopped working.

I cannot access facebook and I need it for work (small org, no IT section to ask), and can't access some new sites.

I've gone to basic security settings, but that doesn't help.

What to do?

Everytime I restart and open firefox and then try to access facebook, sometimes google, n=some news websites and probably other apps, I get a captcha, but it repeats no matter how many times I get it right. I was advised to do this, but it's still happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fX0_wiVKhw But even that's stopped working. I cannot access facebook and I need it for work (small org, no IT section to ask), and can't access some new sites. I've gone to basic security settings, but that doesn't help. What to do?

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luke.a.reade
luke.a.reade Question owner

I've since found this archived discussion: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1446332

However, that discussion says it's google breaking the internet and doesn't affect macs.

Nonetheless, I'm on a mac and not using google (and can access the sites using capture on chrome), so I'm assuming it's google code being so distributed it's still breaking the internet?

Perhaps I need different text for the about:config?

Arniceous
Arniceous

I just wanted to add if I had a captcha prompt from accessing any application in my Windows operating system or simply opening my browser I would immediately run Hitman Pro alert and scan my system. Captcha's can come up on websites to verify man from machine but not natively from an application as you stated. I don't use Facebook for several reasons but Google does not captcha just from exciting the browser.

There are a lot of parental controller programs lots of different ways to limit people's usage but if you don't have anything weird like that installed run a scan. I only run windows and ADM.

jbr
jbr
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"Nonetheless, I'm on a mac" and also question details state Firefox 152 — however your user agent identification tells you're running version 125 from years ago using a Linux. Messing with these headers can easily send bot protection systems into challenging you out of existence if what you're claiming to be doesn't match the connection signature etc.

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