Not sure why, perhaps something changed in your hosting, and probably only @SAiNT or @Olymoon can probably answer, but everytime I come here or AZ, I am greeted with a phalanx of captcha's to complete before the page loads... I use a VPN, but have been for years and never dealt with that, nor have I installed any new ad blockers or anything....

Is anyone else faced with this nagging problem? (just happens everytime I come here and if I am checking in 20 times a day etc, and opening different posts etc, gets a little annoying you know?)

oh well...

 

Nope, Im on AirVPN here, never once seen a captcha..

 

20 times is way too much. I never exceed 19.

 

you did os update ?
check if you on a clon site....i was once a short time..nothing happened it was a clean mirror for clicks...

 

@sisyphus If you are a registered member and do log in, the captcha will not affect you.

 

I don't get captchas neither when I'm logged or not. But I use an ad-block since a long time.
So what @The Pirate said is true (it's stated somewhere in AZ). I don't know how much undesired stuff goes when not logged, I thought it was only regular ads/popups.

 

That's strange.

No captcha here with Firefox or Opera with or without VPN. But I've ads and popups blocked and NoScript running.

 

Remove any relevant (or, for the time being, all) cookies and logins from your browser and check again. If detour persists ask yourself where your last download was from. Run malware purger and kill VPN. Make sure url is healthy https://

 

No because I'm a registered user. FYI I'm on chrome

 

Yes....I do.. But it seems entirely based on VPN location. Log in or not..
Change VPN location and see if that helps.

 

As far as I know there is no captcha implemented . But I'll ask Saint.

 

Thanks for your answers ad thoughts guys. I think it just has something to do with my VPN location (using ExpressVPN), I am currently in Europe, but have myself set by vpn in the states, when I toggle through some different locations, it doesn't happen sometimes. So if changing my location on vpn seems to make it disappear I'm gonna chalk it up to that... its definitely https, i don't download from sketch (often), clean system, and yeah, i'm registered here and az obviously.

sorry for the bother, it has just been happening a lot, regardless of browser; chrome, safari, firefox etc. vpn location change fixed for now, so all good. thanks.

 

The problem is just if too many connections are recognized from 1 IP-adress there are systems like Cloudflare, Google etc. that think there's possibly a DOS attack going on to take the called site down. Then automatic procedures try to avoid this by giving you the captcha and "I think you are a robot" message.

 

Was 1/2 way thinking along that lines, but now full way thinking along that lines after reading your post, thanks... absolutely makes sense... thanks so much!

 

absolutely @SAiNT , as I have come to see, not sure why it hasn't been a problem in the past honestly, as I have been on VPN's most of the time I am here for years... whether Windscribe or ExpressVPN, which are fine paid vpn's that I suffer little slowdown with etc... it could just have been one or two different locations I was toggling between.... Sorry to waste your time and in any way cast blame on the site, as not what I meant, and yup, the problem was on MY end. Thanks for everything!