Why are captchas so finnicky on the switch browser?

twifi

Some do and some don't work. the cloudfare ones in particular are really bad. What causes this and how can it be fixed?

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So far from what I have figured out is you cant fix the cloudflare stuff.
The cause? That i have 0 idea too..

VGMoose

The goal of captcha's is to prevent misuse / automated bots from visiting a website. And the problem with the Switch's browser, is that cookies aren't persisted, so at the start of every 20 minute browser load, you're seen as a completely new user. So from that perspective, the Switch visitors likely look like bot traffic.

And then separately, the JS used by the captcha pages might use features not supported by the old version of Webkit used on the Switch. Likely if you were a WiiU browser user in 2025, there would be a similar problem.

Raven

Captcha works fine I assume. However, since around August of last year, cloudflare made a change to their captchas and whatever you'd like to call it. As VGMoose mentioned, the cookies ain't persisted, I was told by a developer offsite that Switch Users can't see the cloudflare verification checks after you click the box because the browser is missing a cookie Cloudflare captchas runs off of.

A couple weeks ago the spam method was working, just spam click the check box on your cloudflare captcha and you should get verified. This only works for the smaller sized captchas from my understanding, the captchas you get when you enter website that says "Checking that you are not a robot" is a it more tricky and advanced.

I heard Cloudflare got an update so I don't know if this still works!