Quoting Raimond Eisele (Author of FFDL) on the CaerAzkaban mailinglist on something which might be related (extended security checks by FFn via CloudFlare). I noted the OP mentioning the 5 sec delay which is also a characteristic of the browser loop below is about.
And later nzaman:
Quote:Hi,
I've observed something interesting:
It's working without problems on my win 10 machine with up to date firefox/chrome/Edge.
But a different machine in my network (same public ip) with an older Linux and chrome 68 is stuck in the "checking your browser" loop.
Rai
Am 8. Januar 2021 00:21:06 MEZ schrieb Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net>:
>One thing to keep in mind about cloudflare is that they have a zero
>trust policy.
>Meaning, that if one person has ever tried to reach ffn outside of
>their parameters, then every single member is now considered a danger.
>That includes software programs trying to work around the problem as
>well.
>I look forward to reading ideas, but frankly?
>the only person who can address this issue is whomever makes decisions
>at ffn, because they are paying cloudflare to block you.
>Karen
>On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, parkerx wrote:
>>
>> Hello and a request. So last night this problem popped up, an endless
>loop when trying to get a FF.net story loaded and continues today, with
>both Firefox and Safari being affected. Looking around the net, I see
>various reasons given, and I've done the few fixes recommended that
>seemed applicable. I've checked the date and time, and disabled and
>enabled Ad-block as well, it is the only common add on between the two
>browsers, and after doing so Firefox did load one chapter of a story
>before going back to the five second checking browser loop. Any fix
>would be greatly appreciated, this is very annoying.
And later nzaman:
Quote:As I suggested to someone else on a different thread: go back to the page before the Cloudflare check, reload the page, then try the link again. It does a check every day on my machine; this is what I have to do when it gets stuck in a loop