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Tagged with status-completed captcha
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Cloudflare CAPTCHA is blocking all Stack Overflow pages in macOS Safari
I am a normal, real person trying to browse Stack Overflow from home. No weird office network issues or etc. No bots. A normal number of requests.
Every Stack Overflow page is blocked due to this ...
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Impossible to solve Cloudflare Captcha due to timeouts
For the past 15 minutes I've been trying to solve a captcha that keeps refreshing to the same page and the reason, because it's set to timeout in 500ms on a line that has 1 second latency.
It keeps ...
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Cloudflare protection is triggering on Stack Overflow authentication API routes
The Stack Overflow OAuth endpoints (https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/access_token/ and https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/access_token/json) have started responding to requests from the server I run my ...
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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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Cloudflare CAPTCHA for Tor Browser
I'm living in a country where it is illegal to access the internet. Thanks to the Tor browser we can access the internet freely. Before today, it was possible to access this website with the Tor ...
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Every site requesting verification that I'm human
I keep several (many) tabs for SE sites open on a continuous basis. Over the past couple of days, every time I refresh the questions, I'm getting the intercept page that checks the security of my ...
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How do I submit a Stack Exchange app or get support when the CAPTCHA is broken?
I am trying to create a new Stack APP and the human verification CAPTCHA is broken. Furthermore, when I try to submit a support request, that CAPTCHA is also broken. I tried to contact Stack on ...
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Stack Overflow CAPTCHA-Check fails - Oops! Robot detection failed
I try to post an answer to a question in Stack Overflow, than get CAPTCHA-Check with the box to click. After clicking I get the failed check (tested on Firefox, Chrome, and Edge):
The last time I was ...
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reCaptcha v1 is shutting down on March 31, but SEDE still uses it
According to this post, I thought the new recaptcha API was used network-wide.
Though today, when going to SEDE (which for whatever reasons never recognized me automatically), I got this message ...
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Reporting a bug about reCAPTCHA integration to blogs [duplicate]
Trying to comment on the InfoSec blog today (http://security.blogoverflow.com/2014/06/should-we-rethink-our-entire-password-strategy/), I was redirected to a page stating "To use reCAPTCHA you must ...
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A box is now a CAPTCHA
The new CAPTCHA got has a small wording bug:
That should probably be reworded to:
"Check the CAPTCHA box, and we'll be out of your way.:
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Please use the new reCaptcha on the human verification dialog
I posted a question this morning and got this beauty of a Captcha:
Can you read that? Go ahead, get your glasses. Still no?
We can fix this: Google announced a new reCaptcha API that is captcha-less. ...
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No CAPTCHA when registering new Stack Exchange OpenID account
When registering new Stack Exchange OpenID account, it says:
Enter a valid email and solve the CAPTCHA, and we'll send you a link to create an account
Emphasis mine. Only problem is... there is no ...
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Don't force HTTPS on the signup page until the CAPTCHA can be loaded under HTTPS
When trying to sign up for an account on Meta, https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/signup is forcibly redirected to https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/signup
The CAPTCHA fails to load under HTTPS, ...
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Image captcha, not loading
Never loads, after minutes, hours, days ...
when trying to post on dsp or quant
edit
I was using https-everywhere extension, I disabled it, browsed to http://dsp.se and works
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Stack Overflow knows I am a robot and greets me in robot language
Because of a slightly flakey connection, I think I was just prompted to prove I am a human when trying to post an answer.
However, although the dialog box popped up and the rest of the page was ...
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Asked for Captcha, but not loading
I was trying to post an answer, but then it asked for Captcha to check whether I am human. The Captcha loader is shown, but the Captcha is not loaded and I couldn't post the answer.
When I checked ...
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Missing: Two Cardboard Robots! [duplicate]
The image that appears above the captcha seems to be broken.
(You can also view a live version of this)
This appears to affect other sites as well, even though they use different images.
Note ...
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sstatic.net SSL certificate is for an incorrect domain
Noticing that the "Human Verification" image did not show, I found that the src, https://sstatic.net/stackoverflow/img/captcha-conchords-robots.jpg, shows that sstatic.net is giving an SSL vertificate ...
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Why is there a TextBox instead of a Button in Data Explorer's Captcha?
I was trying to run a query in Data Explorer without logging in (I didn't notice that I am not logged in). When I click on Run Query button, I got a Captcha to avoid spam queries. But what I found ...
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I am not a robot!
Some days ago, the spam protection was turned up a notch.
Unfortunately, it overshot the target by far. Now, as soon as I make two edits in close succession (which happens often – I’m sloppy), I am ...
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Review-beta doesn't handle captcha and show an undefined box
Since few days I made some edits on SO and sometimes I got a captcha.
But when I want to improve a suggested-edit, edit a vote-closed question or improve a low-quality answer/question I got an ...
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Page not found when signing up for StackOverflow using sound Captcha
I was registering for a stack overflow account and encountered a problem.
I was using a sound captcha. No account was created when I submitted the form, but I was able to (obviously) create an ...
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Please tone the captchas back down
In the past few days (I can't remember when this started, I think around 2011-10-20 give or take a couple of days), I've had far more captchas than usual. I'm getting more than one a day, when until ...
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I see the CAPTCHA when I answer to my questions
I answered to my two of my own questions on http://meta.drupal.stackexchange.com, and in both the cases the CAPTCHA appeared. I was not editing the same answer twice in row; I was answering two ...
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Humans are dead is dead
While adding the CAPTCHA page link to this, I noticed that the image on that page links to this - however, since that t-shirt has been discontinued, linking to the video_games page explains nothing.
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Human verification on Area 51 Discussion Zone is not displayed
See the robot-captcha image or simulate a situation that triggers a human verification.
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Answer question with fewer than 30 characters, get the error, then extend the answer - captcha appears
The minimum amount of characters per answer is 30 (wasn't it less, a while ago?). There are questions whose answer can safely be less than 30 chars, I've answered a few like that in the previous days (...
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No need to verify us as a human being, twice or more
Do we need it? It's an annoying verification if we must verify us as a human if it's asked more than once.
Please make it only once after the verified process. Further, please delete the weird robotic-...
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Clicking on the Image presented with Captcha opens another Captcha
At least seen on the tex board (I haven't had a captcha on any other forum since I noticed this). The funny image presented with the captcha request is hyperlinked to another captcha with the same ...
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Frequent human verification
I'm getting frequent human verification screen when posting answers. It seem to be due to the new (?) draft feature. Could you please have a look into it?
P.S. funnily enough, I just got human ...
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How many times is SO going to ask if I am human?
Shouldn't SO be able to remember that I am human. Do I have to stay human to keep using SO?
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Get CAPTCHA every time when I'm on mobile
This is related to this question but not the same.
I've posted questions on SE sites before on
my mobile, but I noticed that these past few days I need to verify about 100% of the time.
Unlike the ...
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Reduce Captcha threshold for high rep users [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is Captcha for higher rep users even necessary?
Increase captcha threshold for post editing for 5k users
It happens when I want to edit the question a little bit better, ...
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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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Tweak captcha logic in regard to errors
There have been at least two requests for a similar thing, this one and this one.
May I raise this question again, now in regard to submission errors.
Every now and then, I get an error when posting ...
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Feature Request: relaxed spam rules for established users [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Increase captcha threshold for post editing
It would be nice to have slightly relaxed spam rules for established users. In my experience (on SO), all it takes for me to see ...
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Increase captcha threshold for post editing for 5k users
The captcha threshold has been reduced already:
Some reductions in CAPTCHA throttle
thresholds, if you have > 10k rep:
for edits -- reduced by two-thirds
for post submission times -- ...
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Can we get a more awesome captcha image for Area 51?
On Area 51 I finally hit a captcha and was instantly depressed. It's the same as the Stack Overflow captcha :(
Can we please get something more specific and awesome for Area 51, hopefully falling in ...
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Human verification removed code formatting
On a recent post of mine I included a code block that was formatted correctly in the preview, but was rendered as regular text after I had to go through the human verification screen. Can this be ...
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Why do I have to enter a captcha so often?
I have been using SO off-and-on for about a year now
I have dozens of answers and questions. My reputation is about 1500. I have never spammed or done anything that could potentially result in my ...
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"I'm A Human" Button Sticks Around and Accepts Another Click
One time recently when I got the Human Verification screen, I clicked the "I'm A Human" button, then lost track of what I was doing and clicked it again. I think this ended up asking me for ...
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Eliminate the captcha on long questions & answers
It seems that I quite often get a captcha confirmation when I post a question or answer. All it takes is to write a longish piece of text or check a couple of things to make sure what I am saying is ...
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Look again at increasing the captcha threshold for post editing
This has been discussed before, and was actioned in a way that I can't help but feel is just wrong. This is why I've created a new question, given that the previous one has the 'status completed' tag.
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Human verification appears too much in the way when reorganizing [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Increase captcha threshold for post editing
Make human verification appear less often in frequent editions for users with a certain rep.
Human verification appears every time ...
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Captcha Pages Do Not Display Authentication Status
NOTE: If this has already been fixed, sorry. I just haven't gotten a CAPTCHA in some time, so can't see what's happened.
I've noticed that, when you get a CAPTCHA, at the top, it always says "Login"...
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CAPTCHA - what domain is it coming from?
I got caught by the captcha. However, I can't fill it out because our whitelist firewall is blocking it. What domain(s) do I have to add to get the captcha phrase and entry boxes to show up?
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Is it really neccesary to throw us to captchas more than once while asking a question?
When I last asked a question, I was thrown to a captcha page 3 times in the process of trying to figure out which tag was for moderator use only. This was really, really annoying.
After proving that ...
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Manually flag users as not-bots
As I'm going through tagging questions as discussion, feature-request, or bug (as requested by Jeff), it would be awesome if I wasn't subject to CAPTCHAs. So I humbly request that there be a ...
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Why is Captcha for higher rep users even necessary?
If the reputation score is actual reputation, it seems like having a high reputation would be enough to prove you are human. Why do I need to keep proving it? I could see captcha appearing if my ...
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