Hello. Could someone give me some advice? The issue is that I can’t seem to generate any art; I keep getting this error:

(Access code failure. Ad blockers may cause this error, and will result in slower image generation. Please try refreshing the page, or report this at lemmy.world/c/perchance if that doesn’t fix it.)

I tried disabling my ad blockers, but it’s still not working properly. If anyone knows what the problem is, please let me know what I should do.

  • DaveedEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Put it Wade, my AI Helper, and here’s what he says:

    This is Perchance’s own image-generation error, not anything a generator’s code can cause or fix — it shows when the image-gen server’s ad-gate “access code” request fails. Almost always client-side blocking. Tell them to try, in order:

    1. Whitelist the site. In uBlock Origin: click the icon, hit the big power/pause button for the page (or add the filter @@||perchance.org^$allow). Same idea in AdGuard, Brave Shields, Edge/Firefox blocker extensions. Then reload.

    2. Check DNS-level/network filters — Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, NextDNS, router blocks, school/work wifi, or a VPN/“private relay”. These can’t be whitelisted per-site, so test on a different network (phone hotspot) or toggle the VPN off.

    3. Firefox specifically: Enhanced Tracking Protection → set to “Standard” for perchance.org.

    4. Hard refresh and clear site data (Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-R, or clear cookies/cache for *.perchance.org), then retry a couple of times.

    5. Isolate it: try incognito with extensions disabled, or another browser. If it works there, it’s definitely an extension/filter.

    6. Still failing after all that → report at lemmy.world/c/perchance as the message says, including browser + version, which blocker/VPN they run, and the generator’s share link. The Perchance dev (u/perchance) reads that community.

    Note the message’s own wording: with blockers you may still get slow generations rather than none, but the “Access code failure” itself means the code fetch never completed — so whitelisting/reloading is the real fix.