baeuchlein on 1/9/2025 at 03:13
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For me, this security measure backfires. No matter how fast or slow I check the mark to show I am a human, Cloudflare asks the same thing over and over again, preventing me from accessing TTLG.COM.
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it's not something I'm aware of others reporting. Have you tried a different browser or device just to check if it's a local issue?
I could nail it further down. It happens only on one installation of Firefox in one Linux system on one machine. An older Linux/Firefox combination on the same machine worked normally. The problematic Linux/Firefox version combination present on another computer gave no trouble either, and neither did a different browser on an Android phone.
Erasing all cookies (including but not limited to one Cloudflare cookie among the others) and temporary data did not resolve the problem on the affected Linux/Firefox combination, but erasing the whole "history" in Firefox, which is some more data collected and acquired by the browser, did make the problem vanish. Thus, it's somehow caused by old data floating arond in the browser. I intend to fine-tune the "history" auto-erase settings in Firefox during the next days, maybe I'll find a solution that better fits the actual problem instead of a "tabula rasa" approach with that Firefox data.
baeuchlein on 1/9/2025 at 11:29
I restored a backup from the OS with the affected Firefox version, made immediately before erasing Firefox data. The problem with Cloudflare/"Am I human" was present again. This time, not even erasing every data Firefox had collected did help. Once again, the somewhat elder OS/Firefox combo reacted as it should: I had to verify once that I was a human, and then everything went well.
Yesterday, however, there was a text on the Cloudflare window, saying something like "click here if you are repeatedly getting here". The text did not react on clicking, though, as well as another text meant to display a license and some more things. The latter text worked about one or two weeks ago, though. By the way, it said that the reader granted Cloudflare the right to freely use (non-commercially) everything the reader sent to any website he/she accesses. Did anyone here really read that???
I guess Cloudflare still can't produce reliable software. I still remember the Crowdstrike/Cloudflare incident from last year. And I also remember how someone analyzed that Crowdflare had made sure they couldn't be held responsible if their security software f*cked up royally. I wouldn't trust them anymore. Just my two Eurocents, though.
Al_B on 2/9/2025 at 17:50
It does sound like it's quite specific to that particular installation as you suggest. Perhaps it's cached a script or similar that it is not fetching leading to the original issue or a failure of the text to react to you clicking on it. Perhaps forcing a reload (typically ctrl + F5 or ctrl + shift + R) will cause it to refresh correctly.
I do remember the CrowdStrike issue very well but they're not the same company and it's a very different technology that's working here. We're using Cloudflare as a basic web firewall when things are struggling with bots and no change is being made on the server itself.
BrokenArts on 3/9/2025 at 15:22
And holy crap, no more am I human, and the forum loader faster than I've ever seen it. Nice! Thanks for all your hard work Al_B and everyone else behind the scenes.
lowenz on 7/9/2025 at 07:04
We're not humans, we're taffers, so what's the point of the check????
baeuchlein on 9/9/2025 at 12:05
Quote Posted by Al_B
Perhaps it's cached a script or similar that it is not fetching leading to the original issue or a failure of the text to react to you clicking on it. Perhaps forcing a reload (typically ctrl + F5 or ctrl + shift + R) will cause it to refresh correctly.
Pressing F5 (without CTRL, SHIFT or ALT) does help. I do not know what it does, though, for I can't find anything like "keystrokes" or similar in the Firefox help. Documentation seems overrated concerning software, eh?
EDIT: As soon as I try to post something, the "Am I human" page may pop up again, and what I wrote is lost. So, F5 is goot for reading posts, but writing posts will become a nuisance from now on.:rolleyes:
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I do remember the CrowdStrike issue very well but they're not the same company
I read about it by now, Strange, I don't know why I mixed that up about a year ago.
