I have a good friend who doesn't own a cell phone. He's a math professor. Every year he keeps living life without a smartphone, I continue to be more impressed. Things like this makes me feel like he might have to eventually give in. https://archive.is is now serving, via Cloudflare, this QR code backed CAPTCHAs. There seems no way to get past them without a smartphone. Sad times. I wonder at what point even basic government services will essentially require a smartphone.

> https://archive.is is now serving, via Cloudflare

It looks like a cloudflare page but it's not hosted by them. eg. https://bgp.he.net/dns/archive.is#_ipinfo It's hosted by AS49505 JSC Selectel

To add onto this, cloudflare switched away from recaptcha a while ago. https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptch...

I think they now use their own Cloudflare turnstile if I remember correctly, but back then they switched to hcaptcha.

I don't have one either. No plans to get one, even with this.