Let's confirm you are human
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RSTurboPaul

Original Poster:

12,715 posts

280 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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I appear to be getting a new 'captcha' like thing, and have had a range of pictures of exciting household items to pick out.

Unfortunately it seems to be popping up intermittently but repeatedly, such as going onto the next page of posts in a thread.

If it is new, is it going to be tweaked at all or are we going to 'enjoy' such increased security forevermore?


Thank you in advance.

Condi

19,485 posts

193 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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Same here.

Can only assume the VPN IP has been "blacklisted" or something.

Very annoying. I don't mind it once, but it's all the time.

jagnet

4,373 posts

224 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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Condi said:
Same here.
Very annoying. I don't mind it once, but it's all the time.
Very. It really needs to be less intrusive.

Ed.Neumann

1,119 posts

30 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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Work is the same, which I think uses a VPN.

Every other page, even after hitting reply.

borcy

9,680 posts

78 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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Same here. Pops up all the time.

ATG

22,813 posts

294 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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Why, I wonder, have people started using VPNs all of a sudden?

pheonix478

4,120 posts

60 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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I'm getting this, prove you're human popup every single PH page. PH effectively unusable. Presumably ExpressVPN is blocked. Well I'm not going to stop using EVPN so over to you PH...

jagnet

4,373 posts

224 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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ATG said:
Why, I wonder, have people started using VPNs all of a sudden?
People have been using VPNs for as long as there's been VPNs. There's nothing particularly sudden or unusual about it.

craig1912

4,335 posts

134 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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jagnet said:
People have been using VPNs for as long as there's been VPNs. There's nothing particularly sudden or unusual about it.
I think there’s probably a lot more using them from today!

pheonix478

4,120 posts

60 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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craig1912 said:
I think there s probably a lot more using them from today!
Why?

Count897

513 posts

15 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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pheonix478 said:
craig1912 said:
I think there s probably a lot more using them from today!
Why?
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security...

pheonix478

4,120 posts

60 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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Count897 said:
pheonix478 said:
craig1912 said:
I think there s probably a lot more using them from today!
Why?
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security...
hehe

Interesting. But I'm not sure why that has meant PH suddenly start blocking vpn's. If it's a choice of PH or VPN, I'm keeping the VPN

pheonix478

4,120 posts

60 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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That said I just posted that without the stupid popup. Maybe fixed already...

Condi

19,485 posts

193 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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ATG said:
Why, I wonder, have people started using VPNs all of a sudden?
Been fine for the last couple of years. Appears like PH introduced something new.

craig1912

4,335 posts

134 months

Friday 25th July 2025
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Condi said:
Been fine for the last couple of years. Appears like PH introduced something new.
Woosh parrot !!