General Discussion • Re: wtf? almost every forum and website is on cloudflare now?

That's the weird part. I have an account on youtube, and am also watching stuff day and night. While my IP changes occasionally, and has been for a long time (years), it's only these last 30 days that I've gotten googles ReCaptcha like 5-10 times. Just doing what I usually do..

I just went to site which lets me know what my IP is. As far as I can tell, my IP address for the computer I am presently on has not changed. So I'm guessing my IP address is static (does not change).

I think the privacy types like to "hide" their IP address or having it change constantly with some program they are using and I am guessing this is why they run into trouble accessing some sites since CF and other CF type companies are now in vogue.

I just got three ReCaptcha challenges almost in a row, and nothing had changed between them, so I'm more inclined to believe that they're using algorithms to measure a "typical" users speed and habits. Because one of the captcha's I forgot was Brave Search's WASM 2.0 one. Which goes in to effect when I'm searching "too much/too fast". I can't help that I type and read faster than average joe. It's partly how I was taught and because it's efficient. Most are also on a smartphone of some kind and swipe or tap directly to a new vid, while I mostly open up unloaded tabs with the MButton (which I later bookmark when I have to restart Pale Moon, because YT JS...).