I dunno, despite having a commercial pilot's license, maybe I don't know what an airplane looks like 









and back to the beginning for round #19:

Well that's a whole different can of worms.  Yes, I'm talking about the captcha to even see the front page.  Not sure if it is cloudflare or who.

You wrote that "I need to do it."  Maybe you missed my earlier message when I said I did, I'm up to 18 tries now, at least a dozen were 100% and it won't let me in.

This captcha is set by your server's security software, probably tied into your server protection software.  Methinks you have it set to high.

Nope.

I went to this page:

https://bitcointalk.org/captcha_code.php

and did a right click right on the link and "open in new Tor window" and it goes straight to the captcha page.

re: clearing the cache - its a Tor window, there is no cache.

"One more step
Please complete the security check to access bitcointalk.org"

Yes, I went here:

https://bitcointalk.org/captcha_code.php

and here I see:

You can bypass the CAPTCHA on the login page by bookmarking this link and using it to login:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=login;ccode=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This link is unique to your account. You cannot use it with other accounts. It only works on the login page.

I copy the link, go to the tor browser, paste and run and it takes me to the captcha page.

Is that link specific to the browser I'm using when I'm viewing it?  I'm on a non-Tor browser now, I thought I could paste that link to the Tor browswer and it would work.  But not.

Also, I went to a half dozen sites that ask for the same captcha and I'm able to get in after 1-3 tries.  For this site, I'm up to 17 tries and it still won't let me in.  I think the security level is set to "ye shall not pass," regardless of whether the captcha is correct or not.  If so, the link probably won't work either.

I appreciate everyone's help.

I tried the captcha bypass code appears to be like the switch on my toaster, connected to nothing.

I followed the link on Tor and it still asks me for a captcha.

Like many others, I am a little leary of big brother knowing where I surf the net.  I've started using TOR browser for all my surfing.  I tried to access an article at this site and because I cam from a TOR IP address I was given the captia to complete.  13 times I tried and each time I was failed.

There is a lot of discussion in the TOR community that captcha is puposely blocking sites that come from TOR IPs.  I'm now on my regular browser to type this - it was impossible to visit here anonymously.

In time, a lot of folks will just pass over sites that they can't access without someone looking over their shoulder.

suggest you find new way to block unwanted bots without disqualifying real people who just want privacy