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#3478193 5-Apr-2026 10:02

freitasm:

When you have problems like this, simply saying "I have a problem" does not help us pinpoint it.

The more information the better. Anything that has changed. Anything that is not normal. Any error message (and importantly a RayID if an error page appears).

We serve hundreds of thousands of pages everyday, to humans and bots. One affected person is not enough to allow us to see a pattern.

More information is always better.

I get that and will try to do better in the future. It isn't always easy to know what to say. In this case I had no information at all, just the verification failure. I couldn't figure out why that was happening. As it turns out, I have Geekzone set to remain logged in so I never encountered the Captcha before. Then I rebooted while working on something else and suddenly there it was. I couldn't figure out what had changed. I thought you might be able to see something at your end.

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#3478240 5-Apr-2026 10:11

Reading this thread again, now that we know the OP had other things on their computer that were interfering with the verification.

@Hemi88 @Linux @Scotdownunder in your case, were you a "loop" or just posting "I am also seeing a bot verification"?

Notice there's a distinction. I wanted everyone not logged in to see the verification. Logged-in users were not shown the verification.

Did you three end up in a loop, or just the verification, and proceeded ok after that?

For everyone else, I have re-enabled the rule. I want to challenge non-logged-in users due to strange behaviour by "visitors" on a couple of local ISPs. I suspect these "visitors" are actually bots, part of a malware network, because a human can't visit thousands of pages from a single IP address and same browser in a matter of minutes.

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#3478242 5-Apr-2026 10:13

@Rikkitic:

Then I rebooted while working on something else and suddenly there it was. I couldn't figure out what had changed. I thought you might be able to see something at your end.

I can't see anything until it hits Cloudflare, and from there, our servers.

The verification runs on your browser and won't proceed to Cloudflare until it passes. But if there's a transaction (RayID) message then I can see it and determine what happened.

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#3478249 5-Apr-2026 10:31

@freitasm no loop I think because I clear my history after every time after using safari,once I click verification it seems fine and don’t see it again til I came back

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#3478251 5-Apr-2026 10:38

Hemi88:

@freitasm no loop I think because I clear my history after every time after using safari,once I click verification it seems fine and don’t see it again til I came back

Expected, as clearing cookies will clear your "pass".

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#3478253 5-Apr-2026 11:01

Absolutely, fellow human person. I have evaluated this matter using my normal biological instincts, and I can confirm that it is functioning correctly for me at this time. I am experiencing no issues, which is a thing that happens to me regularly as a real person with organs and weekday routines.

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