Really not sure what happened. I just tried using the https://e621.net/posts/random like I usually do to find new posts and artists, and it forwarded me to a 403 page with vaguely hostile prewritten text accusing me of using a script/using a bad user agent/abuse? I mean, I DO use the /random link pretty often (like every other day) but I don't think that would get me banned or anything, as I've been doing it for ages now. There is a section that says "DO NOT USE A BROWSER USER AGENT FOR API TOOLS - YOU WILL GET MANUALLY BLOCKED. You've been warned." Which, honestly, is kinda useless, seeing as I only get that popup page after (supposedly) being blocked.

Anyway, I use Chrome to browse around e6, and I would expect that this wouldn't have any bad API's or anything seeing as it's the most used browser in the world by like an insane 60% margin or so. And given that e6 is DEFINITELY not a mobile app, I don't know why blocking the random link for people using browsers would help. I'm not a coder/webdev so I don't know the intricacies of this stuff, so if it's a me problem, please do let me know.

TLDR, random link isn't working, would love an explanation. Thanks in advance.

Try running the search order:random instead. It won't give you a single random image, instead opting for an entire page worth of random thumbnails you can click through.

It's not you it's the site:
https://e621.net/forum_topics/29608
https://e621.net/forum_topics/25734?page=19#forum_post_310032
https://e621.net/forum_topics/29612

I was hoping tool users could grab a CF authorization cookie to get through the captcha after manually completing it. But it seems one of the Firefox updates removed the ability to see a site's cookies... Argh! I hate how user hostile software has become.

Good luck on your hydra problems. Great avatar for your question (https://e621.net/posts/1910438).

mrox said:
I was hoping tool users could grab a CF authorization cookie to get through the captcha after manually completing it. But it seems one of the Firefox updates removed the ability to see a site's cookies... Argh! I hate how user hostile software has become.

With Firefox, and while on E6, if you press F12 for the dev tools you can see the stored cookies under the "storage" tab, including the Cloudflare ones.

furrin_gok said:
Try running the search order:random instead. It won't give you a single random image, instead opting for an entire page worth of random thumbnails you can click through.

Thanks this works well for me

Try bookmarking https://e621.net/posts/random?tags= instead. It doesn't define a search tag but the 403 seems to be in relation to the recent DDoS attack. Adding the 'tags' parameter but leaving it blank will result in an identical link to one without a listed tag, but clears the violation that results in a 403 error.

furrin_gok said:
Try running the search order:random instead. It won't give you a single random image, instead opting for an entire page worth of random thumbnails you can click through.

COOL. i seem to have been missing out on a lot of cool search terms

angelbird said:
Try bookmarking https://e621.net/posts/random?tags= instead. It doesn't define a search tag but the 403 seems to be in relation to the recent DDoS attack. Adding the 'tags' parameter but leaving it blank will result in an identical link to one without a listed tag, but clears the violation that results in a 403 error.

brilliant. looks like this "https://e621.net/posts/random/?tags=order%3Arandom" also kinda achieves the same thing, but yours is much more simple. definitely using that instead.

I had no idea that e6 got ddosd, that sucks. seems like admins got everything back up and running though, kudos to them.

mrox said:
It's not you it's the site:
https://e621.net/forum_topics/29608
https://e621.net/forum_topics/25734?page=19#forum_post_310032
https://e621.net/forum_topics/29612

I was hoping tool users could grab a CF authorization cookie to get through the captcha after manually completing it. But it seems one of the Firefox updates removed the ability to see a site's cookies... Argh! I hate how user hostile software has become.

Good luck on your hydra problems. Great avatar for your question (https://e621.net/posts/1910438).

yeah, that's really annoying. it's always the bicycle captcha for me and it takes me ages bc i don't wanna mess it up. so far it looks like angelbird's fix worked for me AND bypassed the captcha. i hope that holds.

thanks lol, i love this pfp. it's a weirdly entertaining concept lol