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Why do I have to complete a captcha to access this website?

• panda17 6y ago
  Sorry, firewall thing -- dependent on recent (geo-ip) threats. Nothing to do with ads -- no ads.
  • orf 6y ago
    Turn it off.
  • crtasm 6y ago
    What threat to you are bots viewing your website?
• netsharc 6y ago
  Same here, today I figured out I'm not human...
• dspillett 6y ago
  I've seen some sites suggest they CAPTCHAs will go away if I disable my ad blocker[†], so if not everyone is getting it this could be a factor. Before I bother even clicking to see if I get the CAPTCHA, is the content worth the effort? [†] I can see how this replaces ad revenue at all, so I assume it is an attempt to make running an ad blocker seem like an inconvenience rather than a benefit.
  • jontro 6y ago
    I still got the captcha even though I'm running no adblocker
• afandian 6y ago
  You don't. Just close the site! I was curious but not that curious... (edit: it's archived: http://archive.is/H9EYE http://archive.is/H9EYE )
  • t0mas88 6y ago
    They even dare to tell you to turn off ad blocking to get through the Cloudflare captcha. So much for "making the internet faster"...
• deleted 6y ago
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• yamrzou 6y ago
  In addition, I find the new hCaptcha used by Cloudflare much worse than reCAPTCHA. It's slower, with ambiguous inputs demanding more mental effort, and sometimes it just refuses my correct answers.
  • flotzam 6y ago
    Google probably has a good enough handle on you to serve the easy captchas. But keep in mind that for users they can't fingerprint (e.g. with Tor Browser), reCAPTCHA is usually insanely hard or even blocked ("Your computer or network may be sending automated queries"). hCaptcha has been heavenly compared to that.
    • bigbubba 6y ago
      'Hard' is not quite the right word for it. reCAPTCHA frequently rejects objectively correct responses when they fail to fingerprint you.