Cloudfare verification

[#1]

Today a single tick Cloudflare verification and the session resumed.
I'm using the same Firefox on the same PC & with the same VM Public IP.

[#2]

So an off PN network connection, which for some unclear reason profiles as potential bot activity.

This is a good baseline marker from which to start profiling the issues.

”Same as before” should not be taken as suggesting all was well before - this has hints of being new measures to deter undesirable activity.

@James_B has there been any change in the service’s defensive measures which might explain the reported behaviours?  It’s no great intrusion, but it has stimulated interest around what’s happening and why.

[#3]

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@7up wrote:

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?

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Trouble is...

I don't know why you are having to verify via Cloudflare - so far I haven't encountered this on the forum - however, possibly you should be careful what you wish for.

You say: "Cloudflare goes down and the web vanishes". However, in my direct experience, the reason Cloudflare is brought in is to prevent a website vanishing, due to overloading by AI Bots. In the last couple of years I saw this actually happen to a website - they could only continue operating after getting Cloudflare in.

(Is there a lack of awareness of what is going on these days?)

[#4]

There haven't been any recent changes that I'm aware of, @Townman 

Last platform version change was on 28 May.

I'll check in with the vendor.

James

Edit: We're checking the Cloudflare-side handling to determine whether any adjustment is needed. If anyone affected can send me a PM with the Cloudflare Ray ID and approximate time it will be much appreciated.