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  1. May 13th, 2025, 01:35 AM #1
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    VBForums now with Cloudflare-Check?

    Hi Folks,

    is this correct (see subject-line)?

    Guessing that's to keep the bots down, right?
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  2. May 13th, 2025, 01:59 AM #2
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    Re: VBForums now with Cloudfire-Check?

    Yes and Yes.

    And the number of regular spammers has taken a huge cut too.
    Wi-fi went down for five minutes, so I had to talk to my family....They seem like nice people.
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    Re: VBForums now with Cloudfire-Check?

    Funny how the slightest inconvenience will dramatically drive down bots and human spammers.
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    Re: VBForums now with Cloudfire-Check?

    The spammers that still get through are higher quality spammers. It takes a person asking a question with a subtle ad as part of the question.
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    Re: VBForums now with Cloudfire-Check?

    All my steampunk desktop VB6 programs are part of a much larger marketing scam as yet undiscovered. I don't even know its true nature myself.
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    Re: VBForums now with Cloudfire-Check?

    That reminded me of Azure. We where promised optimal MS security, we got hacked, had to go to on extra security we paid more.
    Of course cloudFlare is 10 times better than Azure. Now cloudfire, I don't know, if it is not a typo you might get ever worse results from an unknown service.
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    Re: VBForums now with Cloudfire-Check?

    Quote Originally Posted by sapator View Post
    That reminded me of Azure. We where promised optimal MS security, we got hacked, had to go to on extra security we paid more.
    Of course cloudFlare is 10 times better than Azure. Now cloudfire, I don't know, if it is not a typo you might get ever worse results from an unknown service.
    Yep. Typo.
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    Re: VBForums now with Cloudflare-Check?

    Does CloudFlare have a "Don't make Waterfox users do 2 captchas a day" option
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    Re: VBForums now with Cloudflare-Check?

    Remove all your add in's or change the browser for the forum or use a VPN with a Greek address. Apparently they completely forgot about us and I haven't got a captcha for months.
    An interesting read https://blog.cloudflare.com/introduc...of-personhood/

    There are other solutions that involve the administration of the site like using Turnstile add on that eliminate the captcha but given the fact that the site was practical unusable in order to be convinced to put on a reverse proxy solution, don't hold your breath.
    https://www.cloudflare.com/applicati...cts/turnstile/
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    Re: VBForums now with Cloudfire-Check?

    Quote Originally Posted by yereverluvinuncleber View Post
    All my steampunk desktop VB6 programs are part of a much larger marketing scam as yet undiscovered. I don't even know its true nature myself.
    What the hell

    I love using Win32 software, they feel snappy, compact.. and familiar.

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    Re: VBForums now with Cloudflare-Check?

    That needs a question mark.
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    Re: VBForums now with Cloudflare-Check?

    I think it IS a question mark.
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    Re: VBForums now with Cloudflare-Check?

    But my name isn't Mark.
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    Re: VBForums now with Cloudflare-Check?

    Bloody cloudflare. Validation on Palemoon takes about 3 minutes and multiple clicks. It just keeps circling and doing bugger-all.
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    Re: VBForums now with Cloudflare-Check?

    Put 'Brave' stop worrying
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