Cloudfare verification

[#1]

Do we need this on an ISP forum? - Seriously?

If Plusnet cannot rig this forum to recognise that a forum visitor is on a plusnet IP address then we have real problems.

Cloudfare takes ages to verify and pretty much screws up the browsing experience just like cookie alerts on every website. It's tedious and frankly ruining the internet. Cloudfare goes down and the web vanishes - as happened a few months back.

Please can this be scrapped?

[#2]

When I logged in here earlier, I must have correctly completed about FORTY of the CAPTCHA puzzles in a row before the site let me in !

Having identified dozens of motorbikes and fire hydrants, the sequence started again and repeated many of the images that I'd already done.  I did wonder whether it was EVER going to end !  

Having said that @7up mentioned Cloudflare,  I thought Cloudflare had abandoned CAPTCHA puzzles, so maybe there is more than one issue ?

[#3]

"When I logged in here earlier, I must have correctly completed about FORTY of the CAPTCHA puzzles in a row before the site let me in !

Having identified dozens of motorbikes and fire hydrants, the sequence started again and repeated many of the images that I'd already done.  I did wonder whether it was EVER going to end !  "

Never yet seen CAPTCHA with the Plusnet site. Cross fingers...

I hate CAPTCHA. It was OK when it was new, but nowadays? I've had the same experience as above - however many CAPTCHAs you complete they give you another one until you just give up and go away. Which is what I pretty well decide to do immediately nowadays if a site starts to use CAPTCHA - just go elsewhere.

I used to log on to Patient Access for medical matters. Not any more! I've switched to the NHS site despite their UI not being quite as convenient as the PA one. That's CAPTCHA aversion for you.

I'm OK with the Cloudflare security verification.

[#4]

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@pvmb wrote:

...I used to log on to Patient Access for medical matters. Not any more! I've switched to the NHS site despite their UI not being quite as convenient as the PA one. That's CAPTCHA aversion for you...

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I don't remember ever having to complete captcha's on Patient Access, but for the past year or so, I've had to use an Authenticator app.

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@ExForce9 wrote:

When I logged in here earlier, I must have correctly completed about FORTY of the CAPTCHA puzzles in a row before the site let me in !...

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Did you try using different browsers?

A year or so ago, I found that Firefox suddenly threw up capcha's for certain websites. When I changed to Edge, the capcha's disappeared. Don't know why that should be.

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@RadioFox wrote:

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Did you try using different browsers?

A year or so ago, I found that Firefox suddenly threw up capcha's for certain websites. When I changed to Edge, the capcha's disappeared. Don't know why that should be.

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I was using Firefox 152.0.4

If it does it again, then I'll try Chromium or Brave

[#7]

Using Firefox and Edge I've not faced verification screens when joining this forum.

Is there more to this such as the Public IP presented is the exit point of a Generic VPN or of Apple Relay or some other web proxy like Norton AV, these are all things that makes you not look like a regular ISP / mobile connection.

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@PhilipHeyes  Ah. Come to think of it, I think I was using ExpressVPN and a private window when I had captcha problems with Firefox. But doing the same with Edge didn't throw up any captcha's.

[#9]

Just to note, not all forum members are customers of PN anymore.