By the looks of it, I am probably the only person this is affecting. It is a personal choice of mine to block every instance of google.com from my modem. This has resulted in most user verification systems not working for me, including here. The only reason I was able to create an account was by using Tor mode with the Brave browser. I just wanted to bring light to this potential issue. There are alternatives to Google's Captcha, but if the suggestion is to unblock google.com or continue using Tor, I am cool with using Tor to contribute here, although I would prefer complete separation from Google. Sorry if making a post is the wrong way to bring this up! I am a long-time lurker ready to contribute.