Solved Metager redirects to a captcha page

[mottenmouse]

When using Metager (metager.de) I'm redirected to a captcha page. Also when changing the user-agent in settings.
When I change the user-agent in DevTools or use Firefox, no captcha page is displayed.

Simple question: who is responsible, Vivaldi or Metager?

I'm using current 6.1 stable/snapshot on Linux.

[DoctorG]

MetaGer admins have fixed it now.

[DoctorG]

@mottenmouse 6.2.3054.3 Snapshot + 6.1.3035.100 Stable / Windows 11 22H2 & Debian 11 KDE
I checked in developer Tools a request do Metager.de, my Vivaldi has this in Network tab for Request Header:

Sec-Ch-Ua: "Not.A/Brand";v="8", "Chromium";v="114", "Google Chrome";v="114"
Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile: ?0
Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform: "Windows"
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-Site: none
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

And i do not get any captcha.

[DoctorG]

@mottenmouse I your case use latest Vivaldi versions and may be caused by use of VPN/Proxy/Privacy extensions.

At least, please check Troubleshooting issues.

[mottenmouse]

@DoctorG Confirmed. But, I wrote: if change the user-string in DevTools --> No captcha.
My problem is: I get a catcha page with normal use

[DoctorG]

@mottenmouse I did not tell you to change the user-agent; in developer tools, what is Sec-Ch-Ua: and User-Agent in your case when you visit the page?
And what happens in Guest Window?

[mottenmouse]

@DoctorG I use the latest versions. No VPN, no extentsions, etc.
Using guest profil:

• type metager.de [enter]
• type test [enter]
  You will get:
  

[DoctorG]

@mottenmouse Please open tell:
User-Agent: and Sec-UA-* fields at Settings → Network

[mottenmouse]

@DoctorG My settings in Network are:

[DoctorG]

@mottenmouse Same as on my Windows and Mint, Ubuntus, Debians.

[DoctorG]

@mottenmouse said in Metager redirects to a captcha page:

if change the user-string in DevTools --> No captcha.

To which values?

My problem is: I get a catcha page with normal use

Could be a broken browser profile or a extension you use.

[mottenmouse]

@DoctorG The request header in DevTools:

if change the user-string in DevTools --> No captcha.

To which values?

Doesn't matter, Chrome windows, Opera windows, ...

Could be a broken browser profile or a extension you use.

I think not. Guest profile, new profile (without changes) and two different installations.

I'm afraid you can't confirm it.

[DoctorG]

Crazy, today i get the capture, too.
On my 6.1.3035.100 Debian 11.7

[DoctorG]

Metager blocks with Captcha if Chrome or Vivaldi on Linux is used.

I try to contact Metager by mail.

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//edit: my investigation results:
metager does not want to server to browsers with this user-agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
When i chose in network - network Conditions this UA without word Linux:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Bad Metager server admins from hell!

[mottenmouse]

@DoctorG
Thank you for your help, patience and perseverance.
I will also get in touch with metager.

[DoctorG]

@mottenmouse said in Metager redirects to a captcha page:

I will also get in touch with metager.

Gut so! ich bin gespannt.

[DoctorG]

MetaGer admins have fixed it now.

[mottenmouse]

@DoctorG

That's what I call support. The answer of the employee was remarkable.