Bot check

EFLImpudence · 1 Mar 2026

Is everyone else having their humanity checked nearly every time they visit the site.

It sometimes takes several seconds and is very irritating.

Cannot bots tick a square to make out they are human?

ETAF · 1 Mar 2026

ignore wrong forum

Alec_t · 1 Mar 2026

No noticeable bot check here.

JohnW2 · 1 Mar 2026

EFLImpudence said:
Is everyone else having their humanity checked nearly every time they visit the site. It sometimes takes several seconds and is very irritating.

No bots here recently, although it's becoming an increasingly common issue with many sites.

Having said that, I virtually never 'visit this site' (in the sense of 'logging on/in'), so maybe I'd experience the bots if I did? My laptop is seemingly permanently 'logged on' to this site, and it could well be only when one 'logs on' (visits') that the bots show their faces (and that might have been months ago in my case)?

Murdochcat · 1 Mar 2026

EFLImpudence said:
Is everyone else having their humanity checked nearly every time they visit the site.

It sometimes takes several seconds and is very irritating.

Cannot bots tick a square to make out they are human?

If you are outside of the UK the forum may be making checks on you!

opps · 1 Mar 2026

Is your browser not set up to "remember" you?

SUNRAY · 1 Mar 2026

Even if set up to remember you the bot check is applied if outside the UK.

opps · 1 Mar 2026

SUNRAY said:
Even if set up to remember you the bot check is applied if outside the UK.

I am glad that they don't use the Google image CAPTCHA. I often fail those. And I am not as smart as a bot

EFLImpudence · 1 Mar 2026

I do tend to click on the bookmark every time I want to visit and use the same tab for other sites as well.

Ok thanks. It just seems to take a long time to verify sometimes and why can't the site remember I am human if it remembers I am logged in?

EFLImpudence · 1 Mar 2026

opps said:
And I am not as smart as a bot

AI so wonderful it will take over the world but can't place a tick in a box.

opps · 1 Mar 2026

EFLImpudence said:
I do tend to click on the bookmark every time I want to visit and use the same tab for other sites as well.

Ok thanks. It just seems to take a long time to verify sometimes and why can't the site remember I am human if it remembers I am logged in?

It might be prudent to ask the mods to move this to

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SUNRAY · 1 Mar 2026

opps said:
I am glad that they don't use the Google image CAPTCHA. I often fail those. And I am not as smart as a bot

I regularly fail those too, I never know how much of the bicycle or traffic light they expect to be ticked

EFLImpudence · 1 Mar 2026

They do say - or I have read - that it is not actually whether you identify the correct square but the path of your cursor getting to the square in that humans are all wobbly and bots are direct.

EFLImpudence · 1 Mar 2026

opps said:
It might be prudent to ask the mods to move this to

I did report the post when I wrote it. We shall see.

SUNRAY · 1 Mar 2026

EFLImpudence said:
They do say - or I have read - that it is not actually whether you identify the correct square but the path of your cursor getting to the square in that humans are all wobbly and bots are direct.

Good grief, how can a touch screen show a wobbly line?

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