Open Mikaela opened 2 years ago
Element does seem to support captchas? I managed to create an account using Element on Matrix.org using Tor Browser on macOS.
With that said, @laurencegill it looks like CloudFlare supports onion services. Is this something we could enable for matrix.org and matrix-client.matrix.org? We might want to get T&S' opinion on this too
It's possible this isn't an issue any more. We had an issue with ToR traffic for the element app that coincidentally I was involved in, and cloudflare fixed an issue on their side with incorrectly blocking/challenging ToR traffic.
This is still a feature request for having access to matrix-client.matrix.org via an onion address without going through Cloudflare. Additionally this issue was experienced with Element Desktop, not Element Web in Tor Browser.
I haven't tried using Element+Tor+Matrix.org recently though.
I updated the title since dendrite.matrix.org
is also apparently suffering this either through NordVPN or Tor.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When I attempt to use matrix.org over Tor, I often end up being asked for Cloudflare captcha that neither Element or Nheko is able to provide for the client-server API. With Element desktop I only see error about no connection for no reason, with Nheko the terminal output gets flooded by HTML saying it's Cloudflare captcha.
Describe the solution you'd like
I would like matrix.org to provide an onion service, preferably single hop one, that I could
mapaddress
intorrc
and not require client-side changes.Describe alternatives you've considered
Matrix.org could stop using Cloudflare or stop requiring captchas for
https://matrix-client.matrix.org
in Cloudflare configuration?Additional context