Captchas Google and Daz - anyone else?
Silent Winter
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This afternoon I had no trouble accesing the Daz site. I left the computer (at work) for 2 hours, and when I came back (to the same PC), it wanted me to enter a captcha to prove I was human before allowing me to get to the site. The problem? The captcha uses google.com which is blocked in China so I couldn't access the site at all. (Daz isn't blocked in China - but now Daz seems to be blocking China)
When I got home, I discovered the same problem at my home PC - so I guess it's a China thing? Luckily I've got a VPN so it doesn't ask me for the captcha - does that prove I'm human? LOL
Anyone else having this issue? I guess I could write to Daz but I don't know if it's their choice to use google rather than recaptcha or one of the others, or whether it's a site-software bundle.
This has happened before and took weeks to go away. What will I do at work if I can't surf for deals? LOL
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Isn't that CloudFlare, and not Daz directly?
That's what I was wondering - I'm only getting it when trying to get to Daz - but it is a Cloudflare message.
Well, Cloudflare are denying responsiblilty in this post:
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203366080-Why-do-I-see-a-captcha-or-challenge-page-Attention-Required-trying-to-visit-a-site-protected-by-CloudFlare-as-a-site-visitor-
I tried solution one so we'll wait and see. At least I can still get here from my home PC via VPN.
That's a strange post.
"The IP address you are on has shown problematic activity online recently in one of our data sources." vs "The captcha is showing specifically because of security settings the site owner has turned on."
To me, the first part clearly seems to be CloudFlare's jurisdiction. I've been getting captchas on CloudFlare-protected sites when using public VPN, so that protection is definitely in place.
Silent Winter Do you have a static or a dynamic IP If it's dynamic then resetting the router should give you a different IP number.
Not sure about the work IPs - it's just that with this suddenly happening from 3 different locations (and different IPs) I figured it was a general problem rather than just my lone IP. It's possible Cloudflare flagged up a range of IPs that are in China.
I'll try resetting the router at home, sadly I can't do that at work (and our IT department is only there once in a blue moon).
Thanks :)