Is that not what I said? "Seeing an animated sonar ping and nothing else after clicking on the checkbox. " Yep it is. If I sound snarky it's because I probably am. It's beyond annoying. I stated as much as was necessary to convey the point that nothing happens after that. No, there is no captcha, it's stuck at the sonar animation, the animation that precedes the next animation that would occur as the captcha itself gets loaded or a checkmark. Since I can disable extensions and it still doesn't work, it's not as simple as an extension blocking it. Something more is at play, and there will be more people in the same boat, even if it's a very specific setup that triggers the situation. Using incognito or a different browser should not be necessary. I don't know, nor do I have any desire or patience to personally investigate, why hcaptcha fails to load beyond the testing I did. I said that I always just stay logged in as background, that I stay logged in as long as possible (cookies are not deleted because I hate logging in to anything when it's on my computer. I have other ways to stop tracking cookies if I desire than just deleting all cookies) and that suddenly I'm logged out and cannot get back in due to hcaptcha. I think in years I might have logged in 3 times? 4? Namely due to change in computer/windows install and a sitewide forced login that I forget when that even was. If I had been allowed to stay logged in, I wouldn't have run into this until such time as the cookie is deemed expired by the site. i don't know, maybe it just happened to have expired within a day of that being turned on? Point was, that's how I noticed, and was background to the situation while also expressing that it's annoying, made worse by not being able to log back in.
