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From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net
On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:19:15 -0500, Paul
wrote:
>On Wed, 12/24/2025 12:56 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:09:05 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver"
>> wrote:
>>
>>> When going to certain websites, I always get the "Sorry, you have been
>>> blocked" message from Cloudflare. At the bottom of the page it says "The
>>> action you just performed triggered" the protection; however, "the
>>> action I just performed" was simply clicking on a link (e. g. in an
>>> email, or a post here) to the URL, or pasting (or even typing) it
>>> manually into my browser's URL box.
>>
>> I got a message from a genealogy site that there was a reply to a
>> message I had posted there sime time back.
>>
>> I clicked on the link they gave and got this:
>>
>> www.rootschat.com
>> Verifying you are human. This may take a few seconds.
>>
>> ... from Cloudflare.
>>
>> The few seconds turned into several minutes, and I went away and read
>> a chapter of a book and came back and it was still busy.
>>
>> Cloudflare seems to be a major obstacle to communication.
>
>That's "normal" and is a browser-era issue.
>
>The humanity test is a graphic with a tick box in it.
>If your browser could render the graphic, then...
>you could click it and proceed to the destination.
I did click on it.
It refreshed itself and repeated the message "Verifying you are human.
This may take a few seconds."
Click, Repeast. Click Repeat.
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
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