sudden aggressive captcha challeges from main site pages w/o forms
Twice in the last two days on two different sites that I frequent, I was required to complete a captcha challenge just to load the site main page (one .com; the other .info). I am resigned to such challenges on log-in forms, etc. but this never happened to me before when trying to access a main page. I probably should have noted which captcha tech was in use, but I thought the first one was some kind of fluke. I'm pretty sure one was CloudFlare hCaptcha, I think the other was "Impulse" or some similar name beginning with "I". Is anyone else having a similar issue lately? Is this some kind of trend? I do use several privacy and security add-ins, but these incidents were on different computers with different browsers (FF v79 & Cliqz) set up with different extensions and different restriction levels, so that would seem to eliminate all but the PIA VPN assigned IP address or complete randomness re causation. I do have "enable DNS over HTTPS" switched on in both browsers, but it is difficult to imagine that would trigger this behavior. I also have to say that, as bad as some of the reCaptcha images are, hCaptcha seems much worse - poorer resolution images that almost seem to be selected to fool humans, not bots...
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It happens to me for some time, now. I can't remember when it started exactly.
This is happening on google sites, on any cloudflare powered site.
To explain what is going on, it is just that the IP associated with the VPN server you are using, has been put on some sort of blocked list.
Because seeing a lot of traffic, coming from that IP, they assume something bad.
You can try to change IP, by restarting PIA VPN, or try changing server.
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