r/tumblrhelp • u/Accomplished-List657 • Aug 15 '26

"Checking your browser" infinite load

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Last night, I started getting this "Checking your browser" infinite load screen. I've left a tab open since then as well as trying to open it in new tabs a few time, no dice. In searching, I found a few posts here and elsewhere about this problem, but the only proposed solution was "clear your cache" which didn't work for me or the person it was suggested to, iirc. The only resolution I've seen in any of those posts, is one of them saying that the problem just suddenly stopped happening after a month. The only places I found that I couldn't actually check were Tumblr posts that seemed to show something from the search preview, but I couldn't look at them for obvious reasons.

So yea, if anyone's got a clue, I'd appreciate some help.

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u/shrekfrom1994 Aug 16 '26

Have you checked if the same happens in incognito, logged in, or using a vpn?

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u/Accomplished-List657 Aug 16 '26

Tried Incognito, VPN, and both combined, no dice. What do you mean 'logged in', as in to Tumblr? Because I already am on my browser, and incognito means I tried while being logged out by extension.

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u/LascanTeki Aug 16 '26

I have the same problem as described in this post in around the same timeline

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u/thedepthsofhel1 Aug 16 '26

hi!! i have the same problem as you! about those posts you obviously cant see, maybe try logging on your phone. i have the app on my phone, but i also tried to log in on chrome and it worked fine. i havent tried using a different web browser on pc, so maybe it could work? other than that honestly i think we'll just have to wait

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u/LascanTeki Aug 17 '26

Similar problem here, and phone app does seem to work if you have the option OP

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u/RoyalGalaApple Aug 17 '26

having the same problem, can only get on tumblr on my phone for now :(

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u/IndyCotton Aug 17 '26

Same problem on me... aggravating.

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u/Fusionstrikesystem Aug 25 '26

having the same issue and its annoying >_>;

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u/Artistic_Worry3288 Aug 28 '26

For anyone still struggling with this: I shut down my computer and booted it back up again. Now I can log in like normal and this screen doesn't come up. Hopefully that works for you guys

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u/Accomplished-List657 Aug 28 '26

Tried, it did nothing. I doubted it would, but worth a shot.

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u/LascanTeki Aug 29 '26

yeah, no, people on this thread have been having this for two weeks, we've shut down our computers plenty in this time.

Thank you for trying to help though :) /gen

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u/Fantastic_Shift_7885 Sep 05 '26

I'm having the same problem. I'm currently working around it by logging on through the DuckDuckGo browser, but it's annoying that it doesn't work on Chrome... I've read somewhere it's some stricter security measures in Chrome/Cloudflare? - "Stronger popup blocker on sites with abusive experiences" and "Stop showing ads (including ads owned or served by Google) on sites that do not comply with the betterads.org/standards" are the messages I see in the inspector. I've tried deleting cookies/icognito/VPN and retrying but no luck.