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Anyone else getting a lot of Cloudflare "are you human" checks? (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by artifex@piefed.social to c/piefed_help@piefed.social

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I have to assume it's related to anti-AI measures put in place, but for the last week or so I've been bouncing between my piefed.social and piefed.zip logins because one will randomly start doing the are you human auto-CAPTCHA in a loop that never ends, but I'll be able to log in to the other normally. This first happened to me with .social about 10 days ago for at least a whole day. Then it came back. Went out again a day later. I swapped to .zip for a week, but now .zip is doing the Cloudflare thing and .social is fine. I only see the actual behavior in the browser (FF or derivative), but when using Voyager on mobile the symptom is just that the API queries time out or fail, but I'm guessing that it is the same cause.

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I am. But I'm using a VPN with LibreFox so it definitely is triggering a few red flags.

[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Same situation here. I assume AI use VPNs heavily which causes the increase.

[–] Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are VPNs really worth the money(asking as a broke buster)?

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 18 hours ago

Guess that entirely depends on your internet service provider and where you live. If your ISP doesn't collect data on your web surfing, and you're not a pirate, you should be fine without a VPN.