Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by Night Wing » 2025-03-20, 16:58

@ xlolitadabananax

When I left clicked on your l-o-n-g link in your post, it sent me to a white colored empty blank page.
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by xlolitadabananax » 2025-03-20, 17:07

it works here on chrome latest (alternative browser i use to speed up the process of fixing pm issues.
but i'll upload it
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by Drugwash » 2025-03-20, 17:20

Night Wing wrote:
2025-03-20, 16:58
@ xlolitadabananax

When I left clicked on your l-o-n-g link in your post, it sent me to a white colored empty blank page.
For future reference: official HTML5 Media Tuner page

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by Night Wing » 2025-03-20, 17:54

Drugwash wrote:
2025-03-20, 17:20
Night Wing wrote:
2025-03-20, 16:58
@ xlolitadabananax

When I left clicked on your l-o-n-g link in your post, it sent me to a white colored empty blank page.
For future reference: official HTML5 Media Tuner page
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by Goodydino » 2025-03-20, 18:39

Drugwash wrote:
2025-03-19, 19:45
Goodydino wrote:
2025-03-19, 19:35
[...] https://www.fanfiction.net/game/Myst-Riven/
The index page loads, but I still cannot read any of the stories.
For what it's worth I just tested a minute ago and stories do load for me, challenge is succesful.
Make sure you're not making the same mistake as I did before, having assigned a different user-agent to that domain.
cloudflare.com, challenges.cloudflare.com and cloudflareinsights.com must be allowed in any and all adblockers.
WebGL and hardware acceleration must be enabled too.
Also check if HTML5 is enabled for the domain (not sure if it matters but better be safe).
I tried doing all those things. I even tried turning off the ad-blocker. I still get the same result.

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by Drugwash » 2025-03-20, 18:55

Goodydino wrote:
2025-03-20, 18:39
I tried doing all those things. I even tried turning off the ad-blocker. I still get the same result.
There must be something in your profile that still blocks one or more of the tests performed by the challenge.
Have you tried restarting in safe mode (from the Help menu)? Please double-check all the above-mentioned settings, including HTML5 Media - as it turns out is mandatory to be fully enabled - and try the safe mode. And if that still doesn't work then try with a fresh clean new profile, just for making sure it's not something else blocking the scripts. Do pull down the Error Console (Menu > Tools > Developer Tools > Error Console) and check if there's any related errors. Clean anything that doesn't pertain to the current test, before that.

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by xlolitadabananax » 2025-03-20, 19:34

with goodydino's fanfiction site, i also get these errors with the extension:

Code: Select all

Timestamp: 20/03/2025 20:31:09
Warning: The character encoding of a framed document was not declared. The document may appear different if viewed without the document framing it.
Source File: blob:https://challenges.cloudflare.com/86ad0a69-da30-4d20-a378-c598f4ee543e
Line: 0

Timestamp: 20/03/2025 20:31:12
Error: Error: TypeError: k[l] is undefined
Source File: https://challenges.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/h/b/orchestrate/chl_api/v1?ray=9237a0c81cb7e1c5&lang=auto
Line: 1


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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by gepus » 2025-03-20, 21:54

Goodydino wrote:
2025-03-19, 19:35
I still get the runaround with this site: https://www.fanfiction.net/game/Myst-Riven/
The index page loads, but I still cannot read any of the stories. In fact, the only browser i have that still works with the site is Safari.
Pale Moon works.
Firefox ESR 115 (default internal settings) works.

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by xlolitadabananax » 2025-03-20, 23:25

@night wing & @biopsin,

there must be a weird script blocking your cloudfare verification. i thougt id have had to go through all my extensions,
but it was 2 userscripts that i've removed & by that, i can tell you "HTML5 Media Tuner" isn't needed.

disable all ur scripts & test the site reenabling all scripts one by one & deleting cookies at every verification.
& if it's not one of ur userscripts, it's certainly one of your ublock filters.

All's fixed now.

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by Sessh » 2025-03-21, 00:01

Yeah if anyone is still having issues, using a Clean Profile is a good way to tell whether it's you or CF. If you've been following all this here, you may have made several changes or been using an addon that isn't needed anymore atm and will only get in the way. If CF sites work in a Clean Profile, you know you forgot to revert one or more changes in your default profile.

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by Navigator » 2025-03-21, 00:58

A few minutes ago I tried to access CamelCamelCamel.com using Pale Moon 33.6.1 in Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon and it hung my system. It is hard to experiment with possible changes in this circumstance.

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by andyprough » 2025-03-21, 01:20

Navigator wrote:
2025-03-21, 00:58
A few minutes ago I tried to access CamelCamelCamel.com using Pale Moon 33.6.1 in Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon and it hung my system. It is hard to experiment with possible changes in this circumstance.
I just tried CamelCamelCamel.com in a clean new profile with Pale Moon 33.6.1 and I got a Cloudflare verification check which I was able to pass without any issue.
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by Navigator » 2025-03-21, 01:32

andyprough wrote:
2025-03-21, 01:20
I just tried CamelCamelCamel.com in a clean new profile with Pale Moon 33.6.1 and I got a Cloudflare verification check which I was able to pass without any issue.
That is useful to know. Supposing I can get a clean profile also to pass how would I go about getting my real profile to work too? The problem being that if every change requires a forced reboot I'll waste a lot of time and maybe damage something else in my system.

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by Night Wing » 2025-03-21, 01:44

andyprough wrote:
2025-03-21, 01:20
I just tried CamelCamelCamel.com in a clean new profile with Pale Moon 33.6.1 and I got a Cloudflare verification check which I was able to pass without any issue.
I was also able to reach the website above just like you did without any problems from Cloudflare, but I am "not" using a clean new profile. This profile for 64 bit linux Pale Moon 33.6.1 (GTK2) is running in 64 bit Linux Mint 22.1 (Xia) Xfce and was created on January 15th, 2025.
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by Gemmaugr » 2025-03-21, 01:54

Navigator wrote:
2025-03-21, 01:32
andyprough wrote:
2025-03-21, 01:20
I just tried CamelCamelCamel.com in a clean new profile with Pale Moon 33.6.1 and I got a Cloudflare verification check which I was able to pass without any issue.
That is useful to know. Supposing I can get a clean profile also to pass how would I go about getting my real profile to work too? The problem being that if every change requires a forced reboot I'll waste a lot of time and maybe damage something else in my system.
I was able to visit the site in question with my non-vanilla modified PM profile (after allowing it in eMatrix).

My troubleshooting info to compare with: viewtopic.php?f=70&t=32086&p=259700#p259624

Only thing that's changed from that is using uCyborg's uBO instead.

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by Night Wing » 2025-03-21, 02:00

Gemmaugr wrote:
2025-03-21, 01:54
Only thing that's changed from that is using uCyborg's uBO instead.
I am now also using UCyborg's UBO 1.16.6.0 version.
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Unread post by Sessh » 2025-03-21, 02:05

I just switched to UCyborg's UBO too, I forgot about that. Also I can access camelcamelcamel.com and pass the CF test on my default profile.