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I am not a robot
- allberry2001
- May 20, 2022
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Getting to the site is becoming a pain in the ass
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dwcrider
Log in to Reply<p>Yep, I was going to post something similar. Between constantly having to re-login to now this whole captcha nonsense I am not so sure I would consider renewing sub. </p>
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Japser
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>This is unbelievably annoying. I check the Thurrott website many times a day on my phone. The Cloudflare checks were making this more annoying, but a captcha is truly over the top…</p>
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mattbg
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>Agree, very annoying.</p><p><br></p><p>Let’s hope this new site overhaul comes with full text RSS feeds for Premium members!</p>
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oasis
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p> It always gets darker before the Dawn…..</p>
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SherlockHolmes
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>LOL. At least the last time I looked I wasnt 😛 </p>
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hrlngrv
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>If you were programmed not to recognize your actual state, could you be certain?</p>
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emeyerriecks
Log in to Reply<p>I just had to click 10 images of boats to prove I’m not a robot to get to this site… that I pay for. I love this site and have so for years–since SuperSite for Windows days–but damn, if I have to do this garbage every time I just want to visit the site I don’t know how long I have the patience for it.</p>
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jacob.brigance
Log in to Reply<p>Agreed. Since 2007 I have enjoyed Paul’s take on technology and Microsoft and having to click a dozen images of boats each time I visit the page today, or having the CloudFlare check in the recent past – it’s getting a bit annoying. Not enough to keep me from seeing what’s new of course – but it’s a stone in my shoe at the moment.</p>
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LT1 Z51
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>Cloudflare to me in general is as bad or worse than Google. It’s not my problem sites are being DDOSed or whatever by bots. This level and type of security isn’t acceptable. In general I hate (and use that word purposefully) Captcha checks (and I feel they should be made illegal).</p>
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GarethB
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>I completely agree with the frustration around this. </p><p><br></p><p>But don’t blame Cloudflare itself – this is solely due to someone managing the site configuring Cloudflare to present a Captcha (or their other more intrusive settings) – are only meant for sites under DDoS attack. (Cloudflare strongly recommends against Captcha due to their intrusive nature). As to the technical reasons why this has been done, I’m not sure they’ve been clearly elucidated (and perhaps shouldn’t be), other than "issues with the current site".</p>
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alexoughton
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>Yeah I’m getting pretty tired of clicking on boats to get here. The RSS feed being broken by CloudFlare is also a real problem for me.</p>
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kennethf
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>This is getting ridiculous. Understand the need to do some protection against DDOS and similar, but jumping through all these hoops just to get to the site is making me go to other sites instead. </p>
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lwetzel
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>I believe the Live AMA covered this. The site is in rebuild mode and will be till at least August.</p>
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navarac
Log in to Reply<p>What I cannot understand, is why after all these years does this start happening now? Someone must have flipped a switch somewhere – it doesn’t happen by itself. Watching the AMA, it’ll be worth waiting for in the end (I hope). Getting really frustrating at the moment though.</p>
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lwetzel
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>In the process of fixing things or improving things you have to sometimes take things offline or move them or remove the older versions. Unless you are replacing the hardware. Then of course you can bring up the new and on the given day throw the switch to the new hardware.</p>
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lvthunder
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>Watch yesterday’s AMA to learn the timeline and purpose of this. It’s all going away when they start the site revamp, but unless you want the site to implode on itself daily it has to be that way until it gets fixed.</p>
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navarac
Log in to Reply<p>Surprise, surprise. I had to click on buses 3 times this visit! This needs sorting pronto before I abandon ship for a few weeks. I really cannot be doing with it; far worse that all the cookie acceptance crap courtesy of the frigging EU. Although some of that is getting larger on the page of some sites as well.</p><p><br></p>
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jgraebner
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>I suspect this has broken Feedly, as their feed for Thurrott.com hasn’t been updated for a couple days now.</p>
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fabian
Log in to Reply<p>Actually I’m a robot and I don’t have captcha issues.</p>
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WarWizard
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>I’m sure it will be fixed when the website is rebuilt (which I believe is being actively worked on at the moment). </p>
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jimchamplin
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>Are you not a robot? Seriously?</p><p><br></p><p>I’m going to need to test this hypothesis. Please look at this light and I’m going to ask you a few questions…</p><p><br></p><p>… Or you could do a Captcha.</p>
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hrlngrv
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>Just don’t dream of electric sheep and you should be fine.</p>
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arjay
Log in to Reply<p>Still a bad experience today.</p>
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jwpear
Premium MemberLog in to Reply<p>Relieved to know I’m not the only one hitting this. I get the Cloudflare thing more often than the captcha challenge. I’m hopeful this poor subscriber experience will improve soon.</p>
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Mary Alice
Log in to Reply<p>I agree, on some sites you have to enter several times.</p>
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