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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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[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it just PieFed.* or all kinds of websites?

[–] artifex@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I see Cloudflare captchas on a lot of sites, but I've only had this problem of the neverending captcha on piefed recently.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe I'll turn off cloudflare and see whether anoobis alone is enough to cope.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

godspeed

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago

I turned it off just after posting that comment. After a few bumps (expired SSL, no cron on the server), it worked fine although now lemmy.world isn't sending us any content. So, not really fine.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Hmm. I haven't changed any Cloudflare config in the last week so it must be them doing what they do.