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Got a weird "verifying browser" message when posting just now (Original Post)
orangecrush
Mar 5
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Eugene
(64,125 posts)1. Happens occasionally. It's DU Cloudflare protection doing a routine check.
DU and other high profile sites use Cloudflare to protect against
denial of service attacks. It was checking if you are human.
It does that for me every once in a while. No cause for concern.
dweller
(26,158 posts)2. I've gotten those
If I’m quick enough I hit reload and it reloads page without that popup reloading
No idea where it comes from
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stopdiggin
(13,524 posts)3. cannot speak directly to the DU thing
But a lot of websites ARE getting fairly persnickety about browsers and settings, etc. I've noticed problems where there were never any before ...
a kennedy
(33,151 posts)4. Ya, thought it odd as well.

mwmisses4289
(775 posts)6. It comes up about once or twice a week for me.
Depends how much I am on du.