The newly introduced human verification fails every time when on the desktop app. It works fine in browser.
I have the latest version of itch, butler, and itch-setup.
I can navigate to relatively static pages like the front page or individual project pages, but anything involving searches or tags gets me an infinite verification loop in the app. The regular Chrome browser works fine, though.
The root cause might be because an old version of embedded Chrome is used in the itch desktop app, and it’s incompatible with Cloudflare’s human verification. Fixing it might mean either moving the app codebase to a new version of Electron (which could be non-trivial) or somehow allowing the itch app to bypass the “I’m Not a Clanker” screen.
TEMPORARY FIX!!!!!!!!!
-In the top right of the app, click the three dots and select 'Open developer tools'
-Click the Network tab at the top, then click on the little Wi-Fi symbol with the little gear (Should say 'More network conditions...' when hovering over it)
-In the 'User Agent' section, uncheck the 'Use browser default' and in the dropdown below it pick probably any, I selected Chrome - Windows.
-Then click any link that would infinite loop you or refresh the cloudflare looping page.
This fix will work as long as you have the dev tools open but only for 1 tab at a time, as you cannot open multiple dev tools windows.
You might be able to get around it now by changing the url at the top from 'https://itch.io/' to 'https://itch.io/games/'.