I get asked if I am human on the Aeroscale and Armorama pages and I also get the below message when I try to access the Model Shipwrights and AutoModeler pages.
I miss seeing the National Enquirer when standing in line at the grocery: âTen Signs your coworker is a space alien.â They often had some good tips about things like thatâŚ..
This is really getting quite annoying. Now forum links to news articles no longer show images and when you click on the article link you have to go through the whole âare you humanâ process again. Iâd be ok if checked once and stored it in cookie on a sliding expiration, but the constant check is ridiculous.
Well⌠this is what happens when itâs turned off.
And what that means is that the server is pinged to death by some outside servers until we have no resources left and the site is unresponsive. I am working on the issue as time allows but again after hours tonight on it I am no where. I have ruled out Google_bot at least. I donât think itâs legitimate bots. And it doesnât start happening instantly after the human check is removed. It takes about 30 minutes and then it kicks in like clockwork.
Without the human check there would be no armorama (or aeroscale) until this can get resolved.
âHughMansâ must surrender their Gold-pressed Latinum. . .Rules of Acquisition | Memory Alpha | Fandom
I get the need for something to keep out the bots and other riffraff, my point is that Cloudflareâs implementation is horrible from and end user experience perspective. I know you have no control over that but itâs the implementation not the site that Iâm irritated with. One would think they could be a bit more transparent to the end user.
I am willing to put up with the, minor, inconvenience considering the alternatives.
Agreed
Minor inconvenience, yeah⌠one thatâs getting older by the minute, and Iâm not getting any younger.
Looks like Iâll be missing out on much of the content which I used to enjoy since I just wonât bother clicking beyond the blank boxes anymore.
ânot a robot
Itâs just the price we pay for having a free internet that makes it also free for a**holes that harass ligitimate sites, steal peoples money, hijack sites for randsomâŚ
Humanity has had âparasitesâ all the time, inherited from the mammals that we are descended from.
As long as there is some kind of âwealthâ somewhere there will always be one or
more parasites trying to steal it or make a profit from it. The internet just gives them
another way to try and con us, the snake oil salesmen of old times had to wait for
victims to turn up at the village/town fair.
in my side of the woods, and in those days, the snake oil salesmen ended up in a barrel of pig manour and was told, donât come back our you will be swimming in that sh!t fro the rest of your life.Itâs a bit harder to do the same with hackers, usually they are far away
It would still be really satisfying to do it
How does it know, I am a human?
Sometimes I do not know myself what I am. Usuall after spending some nighshiftsâŚ
Rabbits
Pretty sure they are all similar in that they evaluate IP reputation, cookies, browser metadata and possibly behaviors like mouse movements.
Gotta love âThe Fifth Elementâ. 
Ok, now I have to look it once again.
One of my favorite movies