• Soggytoast@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    A lot of times those are the backup captchas, the normal one looks at your browser history instead. Using a VPN will change your IP and throw off the history logs, or a setting on your browser

    • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Nah, it’s cause you’re on an ip blacklist. While lots of people use vpns just for privacy reasons, there is also a lot of abuse from them and the ips get blacklisted frequently.