Thread: Cloudflare blocking TD on Firefox

Looper, does the same thing happen on EiA? Both TD and EiA use cloudflare.

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^It was only TD that was blocked.

All other Cloudflare sites, including EIA were working fine.

The problem persisted across all 4 machines for a month and then when FF 147.0.1 replaced FF 146.0.1 on all my machines this week the problem stopped.

Thank goodness, as FF is the only browser I know that allows me to block animations in animated avatars, which I find strangely distracting when trying to read posts.

Originally Posted by Looper

The problem persisted across all 4 machines for a month and then when FF 147.0.1 replaced FF 146.0.1 on all my machines this week the problem stopped.

Interesting. My Firefox updates seem to have occurred on the same dates as you, Looper (18 December for 146.0.1 and 16 January for 147.0.1), but my computer did not have the same issues as you did. That said, my computer struggled with Cloudflare on TD on Friday 17th Jan. after 147.0.1 was installed. It's OK now, though.

I was having cloudflare issues yesterday on chrome for TD, on Edge, it worked great.

Firefox on my laptop works fine, Phone with Samsung browser gets stuck occasionally

It was acting weird this evening but it let me in after a while.

^I am getting the verify tick request every 20 minutes

As well as an FF refresh I also got a Windows login refresh picture of the world



The cerulean blue waters of Pattaya, apparently a famed snorkelling spot attracting snorkellers from around the world!

I remember exploring that temple about 20 years ago and being surprised at such an atmospheric building in such a den of iniquity. Probably my favourite Thai temple in its ungaudy bare wood simplicity.

Acting strangely for me too over the last week. Only TD with a problem, other cloudflare sites were okay.

This weird glitch came back again when FF upgraded to 151.0.2

Cured by uninstalling and downgrading to 150.0.3

Luckily FF posts most recent version here which allows you to downgrade one step

Client Challenge

It had 150.0.3 offered but now I have downgraded it now offers 149.0.2, so you could keep going back very slowly if you wanted to

Of course I forgot to backup my bookmarks (which get trashed when you downgrade) and was cursing my dopiness but then found that FF actually auto-backs up book marks under profiles under C:\Users\[profile]\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox

I disabled auto-updates in FF now

Jolly good - carry on

Originally Posted by Looper

Cloudflare seems to be blocking TD on Firefox on Win11 or failing to execute its verification process.

Started 3 days ago.

The 'Verifying you are a human' page appears but the Cloudflare logo never appears beneath it.

Instead, an eggtimer appears and then 10 seconds later the page reloads and that goes on forever.

I tried a couple of different machines, and it is the same on all.

I tried disabling uBlock and ABP but that did not resolve the issue.

what a shame

No issues on Brave mobile or desktop

Use Brave. It blocks all the youtube ads too. And you can shut the screen off and your youtube video will keep playing. It is like free youtube premium

No issues on latest version. Clearly this not an issue with FF itself. As I said before its most likely an extension blocking the site.

I am running 151.0.2 and can log in without any issues. The Cloudflare page shows up and it takes a second or two to verify, but it transfers to the Teakdoor home page.

my problem is cloudflare is blocking Nordvpn

Is anyone not having this issue? and if so what broswer are you using please ?

Also may I humbly ask who installed cloudflare and why ?

I do not recall having any such issues after the ninitial click upon logging in until the last few days . I have tried with Chrome and Brave, I see others have had issues with Firefox too, has Clouflare done an 'update"?

I would be happy to use another browser like Opera or Edge to avoid the endless re clicks.

Originally Posted by Topper

I tried reproducing Looper's issue and FF worked fine for me, so, like Molle said, it's probably an extension he's using.

It was me that said that.

Originally Posted by bsnub

It was me that said that.

Sorry, it was Snubs that said that it was probably an extension causing the problem.

Where are these bots coming from, for we know? I find it amazing someone would try to attacked TD. Unless is a disaffected former member.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

Where are these bots coming from, for we know? I find it amazing someone would try to attacked TD. Unless is a disaffected former member.

China and Europe mostly. They're supposedly AI training bots sent out to learn humanities knowledge by scraping the internet. Last year, when I looked, one datacenter located in Singapore had over 1200 bot on here. Another one in China had something like 900, each bot using a different IP address so banning that way took forever. The .htaccess file for here already has something like 2000 entries in it, many entries banning entire IP ranges.

They find an unprotected site and swarm. The other forum had to have cloudflare put on it as well for the same reason, but that one is managed by Vbulletin.

I vote to send a 50 megotonne airburst to Singapore

The upside Chinese may learn about Blurters, Molly and revalving and the risks of pollit tossers.

We're probably doing a good service and making AI stupider.