Verifying browser and redirecting?

[C_Claycomb]

Every time I have visited the forum for the last few days, I have had a white screen and a loading whirl, saying it’s verifying my browser and will redirect me.
Happens at home regardless of browser of machine used, and on work PC in the office.
Doesn’t happen on any other web site. Never seen it before.

Anyone else seeing similar?

 

[Damascus]

Yes, likewise only stopped iPads and thought it was new soft ware!

 

[forrestdweller]

so it's not just me getting annoyed by this...

 

[Bazzworx]

Me too and the BCUK icon has now been replaced with the letter B

 

[Woody girl]

Me too, thought it was my new phone . I have the taptalk icon to identify bcuk, but still run in chrome.
Glad it's not just me.

 

[hughtrimble]

Likewise. Though I just assumed it was a new measure; more and more sites are using checks like that now.

 

[Herman30]

so it's not just me getting annoyed by this...

I have it too but I´m not annoyed. Takes only a few seconds.

 

[Pattree]

I get a load of oversized icons beneath the Bushcraft UK header.
Not a problem, I just tap the header and it takes me to [home].

I thought it had something to do with being away from my usual server.

I’d try a screen shot but it seems that I’m verified for now and come straight here

 

[CLEM]

Same, rather annoying.

 

[John Fenna]

Me too!

 

[MrEd]

Yep I do on an iPhone

 

[Macaroon]

And me

 

[bobnewboy]

I get it on my Apple devices accessing BCUK. I also get it on a headphone/hifi forum I frequent. In that case the page states it’s a CloudFlare action.

 

[Tony]

any chance of some screenshots?
I can't replicate it my end

 

[Stew]

Have to be quick to get it so a photo of my pc!

 

[Nice65]

Same, and a page with a huge B, X on it, like a part loaded screen.

Seem to have solved it by deleting the saved link in favourites and adding a new one.

 

[slowworm]

any chance of some screenshots?
I can't replicate it my end

I occasionally see it. If you open the site in a private window it comes up.

 

[Pattree]

Ah!

I occasionally see it. If you open the site in a private window it comes up.

Now. I’m using the Duck Duck Go browser where all browsing is private.

It hasn’t happened this morning.

It looks like a huge version of this text box field (to start with)

Header looks normal
Then the top bar to text field appears huge - one character at a time:

B (bold)
I (italic)
A cog (settings change?)
Link symbol
Share symbol

Then a series of links to parts of the site and to members.

Then symbols repeat.

…….. but not this morning so no screen shot.

 

[GeraldTheBonsai]

It's very probably a browser challenge or app monitor. Whoever runs the site has probably installed something but it might be misconfigured. Because it's intermittent then it's probable a cache or load balancer issue.

It's there to try and stop things like bots, agents and scrapers. I am on another forum and a while back it ground to a halt as it was being hammered by an agent.

 

[Pattree]

Now: got the redirecting message but it went on scrolling:




Closed tab and reloaded BcUK
Screen shot loaded very slowly.



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