Questions tagged [captcha]
For questions about the CAPTCHA used on Stack Exchange sites to verify that you're a person and not a spam-bot.
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Add captcha to anonymous edits
I reached 1k rep on Chess.SE, now I can review suggested edits, and I see anonymous edits from unregistered users, all bots and spammers.
I know that you are not willing to turn off the anonymous ...
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CAPTCHAs are intermittently blocking CDN content
I get HTTP errors for various resources, and no styles or scripts are applied, which effectively makes the whole site unusable.
Meta does seem to be working fine, though.
Edit: Here's a log from ...
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Bad robot! I just logged in, I didn't create the post in 0.35 seconds!
Problem
The robot dialogue (captcha) presents itself if you
Compose a post on a site you haven't logged into without submitting the post
Log in
Submit the post (it's already filled out since Stack ...
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Add captcha threshold information to privileges page
Related: Increase captcha threshold for post editing
Related: Increase captcha threshold for post editing for 5k users
The captcha often gets to me when I'm editing a lot of posts in rapid ...
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Change the source of Google reCAPTCHAs to recaptcha.net so it works in countries where google.com is blocked
I live in Mainland China, one of some of the few regions in the world with national firewalls. My national firewall blocks the foreign IP addresses of Google, which for the moment provides the CAPTCHA ...
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Use a privacy-friendly reCaptcha alternative
I'm very concerned with Google tracking my online activity. According to this article, Google's reCaptcha v3 poses significant privacy concerns, including:
sending "hardware and software information, ...
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Please provide a mobile-optimized captcha page
When working with the mobile version of one of the mobile sites, my connection got really slow, and (I think this is what) caused Apple.SE to show me a captcha. I'm okay with that, but I'd like to ...
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Can something be done to not CAPTCHA every search from DuckDuckGo's bangs?
DuckDuckGo (DDG) has a feature called bangs that lets you use sequences of characters staring with ! (in this case !so) to redirect your browser to that site's search page. For example, if you type in ...
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CAPTCHA alternatives for dyslexic and dysgraphic users?
If a CAPTCHA system must be included, can it be ensured those of us with dyslexia & dysgraphia have alternative login authentications?
Both the audio and character based CAPTCHAs defeat me. When ...
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Brackets around tags disappear from search after captcha
I clicked a tag from a user profile on a site where I don't have an account. The address was:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/search?q=user:2306+[transactions]
It then took me to the "nocaptcha" ...
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The SE Data Explorer captcha is unnecessarily annoying
Whenever I try to run a query with the Data Explorer, my process is:
Type the parameters for the query.
Click "Run query".
Click the "I'm not a robot" checkbox that suddenly ...
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Can't submit Ask Question Captcha
I'm not quite sure why, but I was stuck with a Captcha when asking a new question on Arqade.
That's normally fine, but I'm not sure how I can submit it.
I typed in the needed text, and copy-pasted ...
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Has the maximum time threshold for question CAPTCHAs been reintroduced recently?
I've noticed that when I take a long time to write up a question, and don't submit until the next day or later, I get prompted with a CAPTCHA.
After some searching, I found that there used to be a 40-...
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Recaptcha blocking because Google insists on "Modern Browsers"
Shouldn't there be a way to post to Stack Overflow without installing someone's particular version special browser?
I've seen the following happen on other sites, its probably due to code changes by ...
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"Robot detection failed". Why?
I got a "Robot detection failed" error message. What can be the cause?
I did click in the checkbox where I am supposed to click to prove that I am human. I was using the same computer, IP, and ...
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Question content lost when filling out captcha during editing
I've just done a load of grammar/layout editing on this question... when I tried to submit I got the "Are you a human" captcha request... not a problem.
What was a problem was that when I entered the ...
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Captcha's from another domain than documented?
Stack Overflow sometimes asks to verify if you're a human being, especially if a lot of students coming from a proxy server are searching the site. According to Which browsers are officially supported,...
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The captcha appears in an inconvenient location on Android
The captcha appears in an inconvenient location on Chrome and Opera Mobile on Android.
E.g. I saw the following after trying to post a question:
I had to zoom out or horizontally scroll to see where ...
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Did human verification get stricter?
Did something change with the captcha/human verification? I'm seeing this on a daily basis now:
I think in the past I've seen that at most once in 3 months, and usually when I was doing something ...
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Captcha verification redirects to CAPTCHA page
On a number of Stack Exchange sites (including meta.stackexchange.com and rpg.stackexchange.com) I'm getting stuck in a loop proving I'm a human when I try to issue a search.
I click the box (a ...
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Human Verification Broken Again
The fix implemented in response to my previous question has broken, and I'm getting requests to re-verify if I refresh after five minutes.
It happens only once (each five minutes) for any *....
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What can one do when captcha doesn't work?
What can one do when captcha doesn't work under internet censorship?
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"Verification expired" when anonymously running an SEDE query
I ran a long SEDE query without logging in. Did the captcha, but after ~30 or ~60 sec got "Verification expired".
Unsure if bug or feature request. Saw it quite often over the past few ...
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Captcha verification doesn't advance once completed
I'm trying to post a Q&A on Android Enthusiasts, and despite being logged in, I'm being forced to solve a Captcha.
That's not the main problem though. The problem is it doesn't actually let me ...
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Can we have the new Captcha on the Data Explorer
The new Captcha is active on the sites:
But on the Data Explorer we have the old one:
Could we have the new one on this as well please? Or is there a reason (less secure, doesn't work because of ...
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CAPTCHA says displayed below; it's displayed above
I was presented with the following notice:
"Are you a human being? We apologize for the confusion, but we can't
quite tell if you're a person or a script.
Please don't take this personally.
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Tired of Talking to Robots
I meet the robot page pretty regularly, and it's always the same process.
Set up a question here
Forget to add one of the required tags
get dinged
add the tag
submit
danger, danger Will Robinson
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Electronics Stack Exchange site won't let me prove I'm human
Lately I've been having issues posting to the Electronics Stack Exchange site. I can post comments but not ask or answer questions. It usually starts with the WYSIWYG editor not working. When I try to ...
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Cannot find the CAPTCHA on the Human-Verification page
I'm in China now.When I turn to the Human Verification page there is no place to filling the CAPTCHA and I can't find the CAPTCHA either. The picture only shows the sentence like ……study …… he is ……，...
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Captcha is really annoying - keeps loading forever
I'm from a developing nation where Internet connection is of rather poor standards. But the captcha verification is of a poorer standard. I have a 32kBps connection.
PING stackoverflow.com (64.34.119....
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Getting a captcha for opening two search bookmarks
Last month I asked: Should I be worried about how fast I use the site?
I'm pleased to announce I got my first captcha.
This is just a feedback, for perhaps altering the algorithm behind it if at all ...
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Sick of nocaptcha recaptcha not working
I went on to https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/
Wanted to see what the highest voted answers are. So went here.
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&q=is%3aanswer
SE ...
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"An error occurred submitting the CAPTCHA", after being told to verify I'm human twice
Forcing a captcha challenge appending ?captcha=1 to any URL, then clicking in the box "I'm not a robot", seeing a visual challenge (this is common for me, for some reason), submit... err... why I'm ...
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What's with the CAPTCHAs?
I was just trying to answer something on SF with answers from Unix.SE, since I was researching the same topic. I did that with an older browser from my old laptop at home.
I was presented a reCAPTCHA ...
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Glitch in CAPTCHA submission
Today, while submitting an answer in SO, I got this CAPTCHA.
After entering the displayed number, it showed me this error.
So, I closed CAPTCHA submission form, but to my surprise found that the ...
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Questions frequently routed to the "robot detector" which fails on Safari
My preferred browser is Safari. Sometimes, I post a question and get the CAPTCHA because "we're not sure you're human." Unfortunately, on this website, as on more than ten percent of sites ...
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I can't answer a question because there's no captcha
I want to answer a question, but there's no captcha present. I tried reloading the page, and I even tried a different browser. Still no captcha.
Here's the question, in case it matters.
It's been a ...
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Captcha in SEDE sometimes doesn't appear
Captcha in SEDE sometimes doesn't appear:
The "I'm not a robot" challenge is not displayed. Instead, it should be:
Infrequent (<5%). Tested on Chrome+Win 10 as an anon user. I ...
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Unattractive design of CAPTCHA window on Russian Stack Overflow
Once I was writing an answer on Russian Stack Overflow I got a CAPTCHA window that suggests clicking a tick to confirm your humanity:
Text translation:Confirm you are not a robotAre you a real person?...
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Logged out mid answer
I was writing an answer on math.se just a few seconds ago. When I went to submit it, it showed an error, something along the lines of “Unable to submit answer. See reason above”. There was, in fact, ...
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Posting a draft should not lead to a captcha
Sometimes, I write a question which I do not immediately post (for various reasons), but choose to save it as a draft instead. When I open the 'Ask Question' page again, and click the 'Post Your ...
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CAPTCHA error message text color is black, while it should be white
Go to https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/signup, or /users/signup on any SE site.
Click "sign up" without filling any fields.
For readability and consistency - the color of error message ...
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Captcha Challenge without a Captcha
I am using Stack Exchange and its sites through my basic mobile Nokia C1 using Opera Mini 4.5.
I was prompted frequently to prove that I am a Human and not a Robot before providing an answer for a ...
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Bug in new "spoiler" CAPTCHA
Background:
I typed a comment for a questions, and then decided to make it an answer when it grew longer and more detailed than appropriate for a comment.
Steps:
I copied and pasted my comment into ...
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Why do I need to enter the captcha n times to figure out that my n tags are not created yet?
When asking a question on Stack Overflow, I need to enter the captcha before it tells me a tag is not created yet. But it tells me only one tag is not created yet, so I need to enter the captcha again ...
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CAPTCHA dialog box is overflowing
CAPTCHA dialog box is overflowing. Example:
Tested with the latest version of Chrome on Windows 10.
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Why isn't there any captcha asked when running a new query in SEDE?
When I tried to create a new query on https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new, I didn't see any hint for me to work on CAPTCHA, so I just clicked Run Query, and the next page was https:/...
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Error entering CAPTCHA
Why do I keep getting this error when trying to answer a question in one of the Stack Exchange sites? (If this information is relevant, this was my first answer to a question on that site.)
This ...
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Too much spam validation?
If I start answering in the morning, everything is fine and I can just answer the questions without any delay. But at the end of my day I get more and more "spam checks" which want to validate that I ...
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Captcha broken when JavaScript is disabled?
edit new day, new luck... now it works fine (no JS required)
I tried https://meta.stackoverflow.com/captcha?s=3ee5d1b2-9656-4487-9804-80e2bccc0bc4 about ten times, but it's never accepted as correct:
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