Getting those pop ups wanting me to verify I'm not a robot

[captain queeg]

Not every time but it’s happened a few times. Anyone else getting them? Theory?

[House of Roberts]

1. I suck at those.

Half the time I can't make out the peculiarly shaped letters to convince the thing I'm real.

[malaise]

6. Not more than me

[grumpyduck]

2. Probably created by twenty-somethings who thought they came up with something clever

And a way to make money.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Yeah, on a couple of sites I use...

usually it's just pick a pic of a thing and click, so not too obtrusive.

[customerserviceguy]

4. They're discriminatory

towards cyber-Americans.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Yes, and this is a good thing, they are making sure that a 'bot' isn't there on the other end...

trying to fake logon pretending that its a human being. Its a safe thing for your benefit, for they're (the host that you are trying to get into), are preventing fake entities from setting up fake accounts pretending it is you, when its not.

[captain queeg]

8. Yes I've seen these before but not when I am trying to read someone's post here on DU

Maybe I should have been more specific. I’ve run into those things elsewhere. Even here sometimes when I’m following a link someone has posted. But not just opening a discussion thread and that happened to me a couple times this morning.

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Interesting. I haven't seen bots on DU, but would not be surprised. I guess no where in the ...

online world is truly safe. Take care.

[ripcord]

7. Are you a robot?

[TheBlackAdder]

9. I'm starting to get "The media could not be played" in some website's Twitter posts.

.

Yet, I can click on the Twitter post, go to Twitter, and watch the video from there.

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