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 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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Questions frequently routed to the "robot detector" which fails on Safari
My preferred browser is Safari. Sometimes, I post a question and get the CAPTCHA because "we're not sure you're human." Unfortunately, on this website, as on more than ten percent of sites ...
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Please change the CAPTCHA so that Chinese can use Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Programmers from china can't visit Wikipedia, but CAPTCHA redirects to a Wikipedia page: That means Stack Overflow refuses Chinese users.
I don't want to comment about the prohibition to Wikipedia in ...
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The visual human test sometimes appears very far away from the captcha checkbox in SEDE
The visual human test sometimes appears very far away from the captcha checkbox:
(click for full size)
Tested on an iPhone with Chrome. This is inconvenient because one has to unzoom to find it. It’...
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I can't answer a question because there's no captcha
I want to answer a question, but there's no captcha present. I tried reloading the page, and I even tried a different browser. Still no captcha.
Here's the question, in case it matters.
It's been a ...
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Human Verification Broken Again
The fix implemented in response to my previous question has broken, and I'm getting requests to re-verify if I refresh after five minutes.
It happens only once (each five minutes) for any *....
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Cloudflare CAPTCHA for Tor Browser
I'm living in a country where it is illegal to access the internet. Thanks to the Tor browser we can access the internet freely. Before today, it was possible to access this website with the Tor ...
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New Cloudflare protection breaking important bots [duplicate]
Something about SE's DDoS protection or human verification must have changed, which has caused several important chatbots to no longer be able to log in.
At first, curling /users/login from my home IP ...
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Every site requesting verification that I'm human
I keep several (many) tabs for SE sites open on a continuous basis. Over the past couple of days, every time I refresh the questions, I'm getting the intercept page that checks the security of my ...
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What can one do when captcha doesn't work?
What can one do when captcha doesn't work under internet censorship?
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Use a different CAPTCHA provider for privacy and security [duplicate]
Note: this is not a duplicate of Replacing reCAPTCHA or Please use another captcha than reCaptcha, because this post is chiefly about privacy and security concerns, and not usability, challenge ...
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Why isn't there any captcha asked when running a new query in SEDE?
When I tried to create a new query on https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new, I didn't see any hint for me to work on CAPTCHA, so I just clicked Run Query, and the next page was https:/...
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How can I cheat the reputation system?
I have been a full stack web developer and have been using computers for most of my life.
I use these Stack Exchange websites a lot, to get answers, as they say, and indeed they are right!
I get ...
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