Comment by throwaway290
20 days ago
What do you mean crushing risk? Just solve these 12 puzzles by moving tiny icons on tiny canvas while on the phone and you are in the clear for a couple more hours!
20 days ago
What do you mean crushing risk? Just solve these 12 puzzles by moving tiny icons on tiny canvas while on the phone and you are in the clear for a couple more hours!
If you live in a region which it is economically acceptable to ignore the existence of (I do), you sometimes get blocked by website r̶a̶c̶k̶e̶t̶ protection for no reason at all, simply because some "AI" model saw a request coming from an unusual place.
Sometimes it doesn’t even give you a Captcha.
I have come across some websites that block me using Cloudflare with no way of solving it. I’m not sure why, I’m in a large first-world country, I tried a stock iPhone and a stock Windows PC, no VPN or anything.
That’s just no way to know.
That’s probably a page/site rule set by the website owner. Some sites block EU IPs as the costs of complying with GDPR outweigh the gain.
I saw GDPR related blockage like literally twice in a few years and I connect from EU IP almost all the time
Overload of captcha is not about GDPR...
but the issue is strange. @benhurmarcel I would check if there is somebody or some company nearby abusing stuff and you got under the hammer. Maybe unscrupulous VPN company. Using a good VPN can in fact make things better (but will cost money) or if you have a place to put your own all the better. otherwise check if you can change your IP with provider or change providers or move I guess...
not to excuse CF racket but as this thread shows the data hungry artificial stupidity leaves no choice to some sites
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One of the affected websites is a local cafe in the EU. It doesn’t make any sense to block EU IPs.
If it clears you at all. I accidentally set a user agent switcher on for every site instead of the one I needed it for, and Cloudflare would give me an infinite loop of challenges. At least turning it off let me use the Internet again.