Re: Cannot access git-scm.com with Tor

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 8, 2019, 23:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20190508232216.GD19990@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20190508083917.50f2cf59@clamav.local>

On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 08:39:17AM +0000, opal hart wrote:

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> On Tue, 7 May 2019 03:33:22 -0400
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 
> > The "security settings" toggle for the site on Cloudflare is already set
> > to "low", and there are no other restrictions. Is it actually blocking?
> > Or is it asking for a CAPTCHA?
> 
> Sorry, it is indeed asking for a CAPTCHA. Google reCAPTCHA does not do
> a great job at accomodating Tor users; it effectively blocks us with an
> endless barrage of puzzles unless we log in to a Google account.

Yeah, even though it at least provides _a_ way to get to the content, I'd just as soon not inconvenience people for no reason (and in fact, avoiding CAPTCHAs is why I had initially lowered it from the default).

I dropped the setting in Cloudflare to "essentially off". Using torbrowser I didn't get a CAPTCHA either before or after the setting, so I have no idea if it actually changed anything. But hopefully it is better for you now.

I also checked the settings for git-scm.org (same content, different domain), which had accidentally been left at "medium". Those are now at off, too.

-Peff