A question about the Archive that let us post stories from restricted sources

[question everything]

I mainly use them for stories from the WSJ

I don't know how to start from their home page. I usually open a post and just copy the new URL into the assigned field, making sure to delete all the additions like ?, = mod, page number etc.

But recently DUers could not access two posts, seemed that they require a "Captcha" or "I am not a robot."

So I wonder what I am doing wrong.

Here are the two

https://archive.is/fMxil#selection-383.0-383.67

https://archive.is/UGLCd

Thanks

[usonian]

1. If I use iCloud Private Relay, I get a captcha, but not when I turn it off.

So, it might have to do with IP addresses, and I am thinking -- addresses that look like a VPN?
But that's my experience.
I don't know what they are checking for.

I don't think that archive.org cares, and they may be using the archive.org site to get their pages.
Just a guess.

[dpibel]

2. One bad solution

This recently started happening to me, and I can't get past the Captcha page; it just keeps demanding to know if I'm a robot.

I use Firefox.

I discovered that if, much as I hate to do it, I boot up MS Edge, I can get to the archived pages without further ado.

No idea why this is; not any kind of a tech-competent person.