[Rose76]

Lately, I'm facing a security verification wall every time I try to get to MSF. It says it has to make sure I'm not a bot. When did this start? Why? Is everyone seeing this?

It has gotten time consuming and annoying.

[divine1966]

Everyone gets them.

Dr. John spoke about it on one of the threads that people started when it first came about. He mentioned that it’s for now and it has to be done but it won’t be forever.

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[DocJohn]

I'm very sorry for this inconvenience.

Actually, not everyone gets them. Our firewall provider has rulesets & logic that shows the verification to certain users based IP history, geographic location, and a bunch of other factors in an ongoing effort to weed out bad actors from accessing our website. When I access the site from home, I don't get it. When I access it from my mobile phone when I'm out running an errand or something, sometimes I do get the check.

If you are accessing our community from home or another place where your internet address likely doesn't change much, I can add your IP address to our whitelist, which should bypass this check for you. PM me for instructions and we'll see if I can't get rid of this annoyance.

This is for anyone who gets the check and accesses our website from one primary location.

[divine1966]

Oh I stand corrected. Not “everyone”. But it sounds as many of us do. I only ever use a phone for it and am rarely in one place so I get it all the time nowadays

[Pfrog]

A rather small inconvenience to keep bad actors out, in my humble opinion!

Thank you, @DocJohn...

[Discombobulated]

I get it all the time on my phone, I too move around a lot and I think my phones security system changes my ip address so it’s not the same.

[SmugBRAT]

Cloudflare, aka to some of us nerdy types, clownflare. Many sites are using it to weed out the chaff and it works. I get it every time and I don't mind at all. Thanks DocJohn for keeping this place safe.

[Nammu]

I get it multiple times. Like if I wait to long to post I get it again, but I don’t mind. What was more alarming to me was that err message messing up the headings. But you already took care of that. Thanks! I only access the site from home on my iPad.