Viewing Cloudflare “Verify that you are human” stuck
It appears some users have problems bypassing the cloudflare bot check protection that is deployed on various parts of our site to protect against robots. If you cannot bypass the cloudflare human bot protection try the following when you are on the page where it asks you to verify that you are human.
In Firefox or Chrome (and most other popular browsers) : Hold CTRL and then press F5, this should force a cache refresh and reload the page, otherwise when you just hit F5 it just reloads the page but if the cache is stale it wont work. This has resolved the issue 100% of the time for those who have tried it.
TLDR: Hold CTRL and then press F5 on the page it asks for verification and try again.
That’s all.
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Why are you worrying about robots? Just curious.
a million reasons, what is this question? are you a robot?
Garbage companies like cloudflare spend significantly on marketing to scare website owners into paying them to “secure” their content; bots are a real thing, but their real impact is exaggerated a million times by these phony security companies that are nothing more than dishonest salespeople hawking an unnecesary product to large numbers of customers, many of whom are too lazy or not tech-savvy enough to research the truth of thee sales pitch claims and quickly take the hook (in the form of a regular subsription). The hilarous thing is that internal cloudflare glitches like this one will be spun to subscribers of cloudflare’s garbage ‘product’ as the results of an imaginary ‘malware attack’ and they will use their own failure as supposed evidence that they ‘must be doing something right.’ It’s a closed loop of bad loginc that traps a lot of suckers. [I used to share office space with one of these sales reps and used to hear their nonsense sales pitch over and over again, and they would laugh about how easily they were able to sell their BS product to so many gullible people.]
Hold CTRL+F5 doesn’t help me on either Chrome or Firefox. With Chrome I had not even visited the page before.
how does the error present itself, does it loop where it asks you again to press the button, or does the box disappear and just turn white?
i know you said you had not even visited the page with chrome, but in either browser, what happens if you open a incognito window and try with that instead?
It loops.
And now it works on Firefox too. I guess there might be a timer of some sort to expire older data even after a hard refresh.
Incognito had the same problem.
For whatever reason, started to work on Chrome, but no chance on Firefox.
hmm very strange, but i have no actual control over what cloudflare uses to determine if a user is a bot or a human, i think it may just come down to a temporary issue on cloudflares end. Can you try again now with firefox? And which version of firefox are you using? If its a old version of firefox cloudflare may think you’re a bot sending false headers.
Not working for me either. Restarted, deleted everything in history even tried wifi for a new ip
Please try again now and see if you get any better success?
Hello Collector,
you do not factor in that a lot of users use VPN (popular and not so popular ones) and especially cloudflare is pretty destructive in granting access to VPN users because it’s a marketing scheme in differentiating humans from robots. This means you keep out your “paying customers” by protecting the site against them.
Do you have statistics to show how many real threats cloudflare resolved? It’s marginal for a page as huge as yours is.
You’re better of with a simple solution like a n-digit captcha (there are a ton of open source solutions out there) to protect your links from access. Next to cloudflare as a layer above without that many destructive intrusions for user experience you’re way more accessable to your customers.
Just my 2 cents. Otherwise keep up the good work.
I’ve experienced this in the past, but not recently. This may be nonsense, but what I do is wait 5 seconds before ticking the check box and it works every time. By this logic and no expertise, perhaps if the box registers as being ticked almost immediately, it reports as a bot.
For me it’s better.
Since this post I don’t need to press the button.
It remembers me.
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hehe, the first line describing cloud flare on its site is… frustration free. No luck with the fixes, I’ve had no luck logging in for a afew days, worked just fine last week.
what browser are you using? what issue are you having? there are multiple, captcha just disappearing after load, it only looping, etc.
Yes Collector, the cloud flare will initially say verifying for a few seconds and then disappear. Reloading the page gives the same results.
what browser?
What does if matter what browser?? Stop asking that! There are dozens of modern borwsers, many more if you include forks of open-source code. People use what is best for THEM at the USER end. Paying a worthless 3rd party like cloudflare to pretend they are protecting you and then blaming all problems on USERS who have higher security setups (which cloudflare rejects when they can’t access enough personal information from the user they are “checking”) is total BS. I’m not a bot simply because I limit what information garbage companies like that can access through my secure browser. Shame on you for allowing this issue to continue. Cloudflare are who they are – no “security” platform that claims widespread protection is being honest . Real security must be specific, not generic. The fact that you buy into their fearmongering and are hurting your users is 100% on you at this point.
not paying for cloudflare, its free… and they support all major browsers, i wish there was a way for me to resolve it, but i cant do much more than report the issue to cloudflare and if i dont know which browser is being used its difficult to determine.