Earlier when I went to e621, I was taken to a Cloudfare page which asked me to solve a captcha. Not only had this never happened to me before, but the captcha was different than the common one you see around. This happened again a few minutes ago on this device and in addition E621 is redlisted in NoScript when it used to not be (for those who don't know NoScript, basically I just said that my ad/site blocker doesn't like it now.

Anyone else having this problem, and anyone know a reason why this might be happening?

flatisjustice said:
Earlier when I went to e621, I was taken to a Cloudfare page which asked me to solve a captcha. Not only had this never happened to me before, but the captcha was different than the common one you see around. This happened again a few minutes ago on this device and in addition E621 is redlisted in NoScript when it used to not be (for those who don't know NoScript, basically I just said that my ad/site blocker doesn't like it now.

Anyone else having this problem, and anyone know a reason why this might be happening?

It also just happened to me.

I never come to the forum section and came here to find answers out of worry.
[ I don't mind captchas, but is everything ok? ]

kemonophonic said:
https://e621.net/forum_topics/25734?page=19#forum_post_310032

Thanks

I think they at least could have posted a notice about it or something. That’s just me though.

Been having to do a captch every time I load up e621.net any one know why this is happening it only started like a few weeks ago ?

The api is completely unusable with this new cloudflare captcha prompt. Not even even copying the cf_clerance cookie from the browser works because cloudflare detects the client is different and asks for a captcha again anyway.

I thought I might of accidently done something to get on cloudflares blacklist but cloudflare asks for a captcha no matter what IP I connect from.

4475736b205368696e65 said:
The api is completely unusable with this new cloudflare captcha prompt. Not even even copying the cf_clerance cookie from the browser works because cloudflare detects the client is different and asks for a captcha again anyway.

I thought I might of accidently done something to get on cloudflares blacklist but cloudflare asks for a captcha no matter what IP I connect from.

E6 has been DDoSed so Cloudflare's added the captcha as protection, it'll go back to normal when the DDoS stops.

pup said:
E6 has been DDoSed so Cloudflare's added the captcha as protection, it'll go back to normal when the DDoS stops.

Yuck, shame that this happens.

I wonder if this an APT as DDoS rarely lasts this long.

I get them with almost every attempt to visit the site now. I can close the tab and the prompt will come back up if I open the site again just seconds later. Its not too bad as there is nothing to click, but it is still kind of annoying. Has been happening for three days straight now.

Edit: Now I am getting them every couple minutes. This starting to get really frustrating now.

I'm now getting an occasional semi-regular prompt with a single "I'm not a robot" kind of button (different from cloudfare's "select these objects" captcha, and which was much less regular), and clicking it takes me to the front page instead of the original link I was trying. Happened one time when trying to upload which caused an upload error, and once while tagging which caused the tag autocomplete to stop working (luckily I realized what was going on and clicked an e6 link on a new tab to "answer" the prompt, and not lose what I had filled in).

watsit said:
I'm now getting an occasional semi-regular prompt with a single "I'm not a robot" kind of button (different from cloudfare's "select these objects" captcha, and which was much less regular), and clicking it takes me to the front page instead of the original link I was trying. Happened one time when trying to upload which caused an upload error, and once while tagging which caused the tag autocomplete to stop working (luckily I realized what was going on and clicked an e6 link on a new tab to "answer" the prompt, and not lose what I had filled in).

It looks really suspicious IMO. At first I thought I somehow got redirected to a scam site.

Incidentally if you try to submit a post when you're being prompted, you get "Error: Unknown error! undefined". Catchy.

I have seen this on my IPad Mini browser.. either a captcha or a single button saying I’m not a robot.. I don’t know whether touring tests are intricate or just lazy but still they are annoying as hell to complete every other while.

strikerman said:
It looks really suspicious IMO. At first I thought I somehow got redirected to a scam site.

It looks really homegrown and quickly put together.

My script continues to get 503 errors because of this. I am unsure, but maybe the cookie has too short of an expiration date?

Hopefully things will get smoothened out!