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LET CAPTCHA fail
TimboJones
Member
in General
I am getting CAPTCHA crap when trying to post a long reply. But instead of getting a popup, it's basically an overlay on the LET wallpaper and nothing is able to be clicked or selected. Tried on several browsers and another PC without any ad blocking or script blocking. Looks like a LET issue.
Anyone else seeing this?
Comments
I can't create a post long enough to trigger captcha... (and I've never seen one before on LET)
Yep, I also experienced that a couple of times. Maybe due to long posts, maybe due to what Vanilla (or CloudF#%&! ?) sees as "strange characters".
I am curious can you explain why you dislike them so much?
Some people just don't like gigantic players who have centralised a significant percentage of the market on principle. Not saying that applies here, just seems likely.
I dislike them more than @jsg do not because they are a big player but because I know how the reverse proxy works and know that my info including (plain username and password) are being logged on their worldwide servers. webmasters are either not knowing that or trade their end-users info for their website uptime on purpose.
I've occasionally told about the reasons.
I don't know whether they really do that but I do definitely not consider them trustworthy plus, frankly I doubt that their services actually make websites faster (from the users perspective). But obviously the strongly pushed "everyone must encrypt everything, always" hysteria seems to actually have made people less prudent wrt. security. Example: Yeah right, handing your private key to a big 5-eyes corporation really is enhancing your sites security. NOT.
I don't have any proof unfortunately and I don't want to prove it. but its more of common sense to me tbh. they are providing all that bandwidth, all that servers gear, all that technical expertise for FREE ? of course not. they are being paid by big dads to keep kids under control.
I honestly don't mind that. they are like a honeypot for DDoS attractors (skiddies in most cases) unfortunately legit end-users info is the victim here because everyone is using it.
I believe this was started by Google and not Cloudflare. they just followed the band.
Send me a pm with information on this and I'll look into it. It's almost certainly cloud flare picking it up.