Have to complete a security check to access the archives?

[usonian]

1. If you mean archive.today, archive.is, archive.md and others in that family, it's basically bot protection.

I hate captchas, and have two extensions that solve captchas. It's quite the site to see one or the other solve them.

Almost everyone has bot protection. Not just hackers but G.D. LLM's scraping the web mercilessly. They have somewhat destroyed the internet. (DU uses Cloudflare but Never puts up a CAPTCHA.)

As for browsers, one might be routed differently from the other, as in vpn, or iCloud Private Relay or the phone network, and there are different defenses put up for various networks. Don't ask. That's all I can surmise.