FreeBSD Desktop failing "human" detector websites

Keve

Keve

Those of you who use FreeBSD as a daily desktop system, could you please try and see if your web-browser can access the FreeBSD bug report form. My recent experience is that the Anubis thingy rejects me as a human being every time I connect from my FreeBSD 15.1R desktop. Tried Firefox and Chromium, same result. If I connect from my MacBook (same home network, behind the same NATed IP) then I pass the Anubis test and get access to the bug reporting form.

I recently had similar issues with sites "protected" by CloudFlare's AI/BOT/crawler detector. Hence I have the feeling that browsers on FreeBSD are being discriminated by these filters. What is your experience?
 
Waterfox, firefox, librewolf, chromium all seem to work fine for me on 15.1. If you have any addons/extensions enabled try disabling first.
Other websites that use cloudflare I've had trouble but clearing cache and cookies would fix things.
So maybe not "FreeBSD" but stale data. A quick try is "use a private window"
 
OK, that is good enough. So it is not something about FreeBSD 15.1 if it works for many of you.
I don't think it is stale data on my side because I do not really use Chromium, I just keep it as a backup, no extensions or plugins, no settings I changed. It should have worked.
But, now that results keep pointing back at my env, I will try using a clean new user account and see how that connects.
 
New user account, nothing but a .xinitrc, ran `startx`, launched Firefox and Chromium, both fail the Anubis test. Even tried adding "freebsd.org" as an exception domain for cookie and other default protection settings. No improvement.
I will try a few other tests in the hope of narrowing down what may cause this.
 
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