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haha. great irony: the medium.com site showed me a page with a google captcha. I clicked it, and it asked me to identify cars or something. so I just hit the ba

by gcb0 9y ago

haha. great irony: the medium.com site showed me a page with a google captcha. I clicked it, and it asked me to identify cars or something. so I just hit the back button, left this comment and realised I did not have to read such a click baity titled article. I guess captcha before showing an ad-ridden site is 70% of the reason I don't read bad articles. thanks medium-google-cloudflare.

Const-me 9y ago
Probably, internets detected malware or spam coming from your IP. Check there: https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check
- gcb0 9y ago
  clean. it was probably because I have firefox for android with adblocker extension and it migth have confused their JS based bot detection. also, glad to see HN removed the click bait title.
- jstanley 9y ago
  (Not the person you're replying to, but) Thanks for the link. I get CAPTCHA's all the time and it turns out my IP address is in the spfbl.net blacklist. Now to work out how to get taken off it...
  - Const-me 9y ago
    You’re welcome. My current ISP doesn’t provide me a public IP address, so I’m sharing the IP with other clients of that ISP. A month ago I also noticed captchas on google and cloudflare. Because half of the internets use cloudflare that was kinda noticeable. I’ve searched a bit, found the cause (and a bunch of black list checks resources). I’ve e-mailed my ISP describing the issue and linking to that check page, they did something and the problem went away. If you’re the sole user of your IP address, check the detection details. Some of these honeypots/black lists even tell you what exact malware they think is likely to cause the trouble. Then scan/update your computers (all of them that are using that IP address), and wait a bit. AFAIK, if the spam stops coming from that IP, their entries expire after a while, probably days or weeks.

by gcb0 9y ago

Const-me 9y ago

Probably, internets detected malware or spam coming from your IP. Check there: https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check

gcb0 9y ago
clean. it was probably because I have firefox for android with adblocker extension and it migth have confused their JS based bot detection. also, glad to see HN removed the click bait title.
jstanley 9y ago
(Not the person you're replying to, but) Thanks for the link. I get CAPTCHA's all the time and it turns out my IP address is in the spfbl.net blacklist. Now to work out how to get taken off it...
- Const-me 9y ago
  You’re welcome. My current ISP doesn’t provide me a public IP address, so I’m sharing the IP with other clients of that ISP. A month ago I also noticed captchas on google and cloudflare. Because half of the internets use cloudflare that was kinda noticeable. I’ve searched a bit, found the cause (and a bunch of black list checks resources). I’ve e-mailed my ISP describing the issue and linking to that check page, they did something and the problem went away. If you’re the sole user of your IP address, check the detection details. Some of these honeypots/black lists even tell you what exact malware they think is likely to cause the trouble. Then scan/update your computers (all of them that are using that IP address), and wait a bit. AFAIK, if the spam stops coming from that IP, their entries expire after a while, probably days or weeks.