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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Captcha too big and cannot be completed on Android
When posting a question on diy.se using Edge on Android I got a Captcha where the box I had to check was off screen. I could scroll the display a little but not enough to complete the Captcha. I ...
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Cloudflare captcha threshold is too high
Please can the block threshold for the managed challenge be raised? I can't access any Stack Exchange sites at all now when behind my company's proxy. This is just within the last week or so that I ...
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Too many Cloudflare challenges on Stack Exchange sites [duplicate]
When I search for solutions through search engines, many links point to Stack Exchange sites, such as SuperUser, StackOverflow, AskUbuntu, etc. This clearly shows that there is a wealth of helpful ...
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Frequent 403 errors due to cloudflare captcha in sstatic.net domain
In the recent few weeks, I frequently observe that the webpage looks broken for all StackExchange websites:
It seems that all resources under the sstatic.net domain (including all JS and CSS files) ...
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"an error occurred submitting your question" x3 before the captcha finally shows up
I noticed this bug twice this week: I tried posting a question, I get the error message "an error occurred submitting your question", I tried again a few times and get the same error message,...
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Error when posting an answer to a question
This was already reported in Error when posting an answer to a question. Posting here is not only happening in Stack Overflow as another user mentioned.
When I try to post a new answer, in my case in ...
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Fiendly captcha robot covering captcha
EDIT: This seems to have something to do with the contents of the post itself (see very bottom). Any ideas?
I am trying to post an answer from the computer I usually access SE from, the first answer ...
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I came across a very different CAPTCHA that repeatedly failed
On certain mobile devices, when I click "Retry using another source", they put me to a "Just a moment" page giving me a CAPTCHA that repeatedly failed. It's totally different from ...
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Make SEDE queries automatically run after the captcha is completed [duplicate]
On the SE Data Explorer, anonymous visitors must complete a captcha. This isn’t unreasonable at all.
The captcha presents after “Run Query” is clicked/pressed. After the captcha is completed, visitors ...
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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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I seem to be in the cloudflare penalty box, is there anything I can do to get out?
For about the last week or so, when I visit a page on SO, and have not visited a page in the last minute or so, I get a note that cloudflare is verifying that I am a human. Sometimes there is a ...
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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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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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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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