Captcha

Bmblbzzz

Thru Hiker
I had a Captcha pop up on here yesterday. Just clicked on a new thread and up it popped. Said due to unusual activity on my ISP, I needed to click the box to prove I'm not a robot. I ignored it at first but when I later looked at the forum again, on a different machine in a different place, the same Captcha appeared. So I clicked it and nothing bad seems to have happened. I've no idea what "unusual activity" might have been detected. What's going on?
 

WilliamC

Thru Hiker
I had a Captcha pop up on here yesterday. Just clicked on a new thread and up it popped. Said due to unusual activity on my ISP, I needed to click the box to prove I'm not a robot. I ignored it at first but when I later looked at the forum again, on a different machine in a different place, the same Captcha appeared. So I clicked it and nothing bad seems to have happened. I've no idea what "unusual activity" might have been detected. What's going on?
I had the same yesterday. I opened several threads in different tabs at the same time and I wondered if that was what had caused it.
 

Shewie

Chief Slackpacker
Staff member
That sounds a bit odd, thanks for raising it guys, I’ll take a look when I get home tonight
 

Michael_x

Section Hiker
Captcha here too, yesterday evening. Since I use a vpn I'm used to seeing them occasionally on other sites so I just rolled my eyes hoping that it wasn't going to be a regular thing.
 

Odd Man

Thru Hiker
I had the same last night. It looked like the captcha was used as a gatekeeper to prevent DDoS attacks. Cloudflare which is a company specialising to protect websites uses the same. The protection kicks in usually when using a VPN (at least so it seems) or if one is refreshing/being very active on a website, as either can be interpreted as an attack.
 

cathyjc

Thru Hiker
I had a Captcha pop up on here yesterday. Just clicked on a new thread and up it popped. Said due to unusual activity on my ISP, I needed to click the box to prove I'm not a robot. I ignored it at first but when I later looked at the forum again, on a different machine in a different place, the same Captcha appeared. So I clicked it and nothing bad seems to have happened. I've no idea what "unusual activity" might have been detected. What's going on?

Me too. I changed browser for a while.

The issue I'm having (since last week) is I get logged out every few minutes and have to log back in. Tedious.
It might however be because I havn't updated the browser. :oops:.
 

Balagan

Thru Hiker
Same here with the captcha yesterday. It's not a big issue and there was nothing else unusual.
 

Diddi

Thru Hiker
The particular thread I was opening, if it makes any difference, was the one about shaving.

Ed: This one: https://www.trek-lite.com/index.php?threads/shaving-if-yes-whats-the-kit.7336/

And I've just had the same Captcha again when opening that thread, so it does seem to be some sort of bug – or something – in that particular thread.
All clear on duckduckgo....
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It only happened to me when I clicked on a post Diddi had made.
:eek: it wasn't me .......:)
 

tja

Trail Blazer
Hmm, I got a captcha right now on the stove efficiency thread, after visiting the shaving thread which did not show the usual formatting.
 

WilliamC

Thru Hiker
I had them again today. One of them (the shaving thread) wouldn't redirect me no matter how many times I clicked. Then it started sending me the picture screens to identify, but even then it wouldn't let me through. I could access the thread by going through the new posts page again, though.
 

Diddi

Thru Hiker
Never had a problem on duckduckgo until i installed Chrome to see if it would happen to me.
Captcha was on Chrome then it went and gave me problems on duckduckgo until I deleted Chrome again.:confused:
Just thought I'd let you know.
 

Shewie

Chief Slackpacker
Staff member
It looks as though something has been applied to the server rather than the forum interface, if you can bear with me I'll try and get it resolved asap
 

Odd Man

Thru Hiker
It looks as though something has been applied to the server rather than the forum interface, if you can bear with me I'll try and get it resolved asap

I don't think it's even applied to the server but the cloud (server group) front end that handles load balancing and firewall. I don't know where you host the service, but these solutions are usually applied to cover all the customers' services and not individual servers/customers.
 

Shewie

Chief Slackpacker
Staff member
I don't think it's even applied to the server but the cloud (server group) front end that handles load balancing and firewall. I don't know where you host the service, but these solutions are usually applied to cover all the customers' services and not individual servers/customers.

Anything beyond what I have access to I class as “server” :)

But yeah it’s probably the host services
 

Odd Man

Thru Hiker
Anything beyond what I have access to I class as “server” :)

But yeah it’s probably the host services

Yup, but just flag the hosting company that you're having slight issues with your clients and maybe they can tweak the sensitivity a bit. Mostly number of click/links accessed within a set time frame or IP range filters used.
 

Balagan

Thru Hiker
Yup, but just flag the hosting company that you're having slight issues with your clients and maybe they can tweak the sensitivity a bit. Mostly number of click/links accessed within a set time frame or IP range filters used.
I believe you have nailed it: whatever new security layer was added did not anticipate the rabid clicking of deals worth going for, new gear worth trying and shiny new toys worth buying that we indulge in. ;)
 
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