Bot check

[EFLImpudence]

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]

ignore wrong forum

 

[Alec_t]

No noticeable bot check here.

 

[JohnW2]

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]

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]

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

 

[SUNRAY]

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

 

[opps]

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]

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]

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]

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

Forum Information

Information and notices about the forums and DIYnot.com in general. This is where you can ask your questions regarding the site, forum, wiki etc.

www.diynot.com

Best of luck

 

[SUNRAY]

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]

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]

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]

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?