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Eugene

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1. Happens occasionally. It's DU Cloudflare protection doing a routine check.

Reply to orangecrush (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2025, 11:47 PM

Mar 5

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.

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Got a weird "verifying browser" message when posting just now [View all] orangecrush Mar 5 OP

Happens occasionally. It's DU Cloudflare protection doing a routine check. Eugene Mar 5 #1

Thanks orangecrush Mar 6 #5

I've gotten those dweller Mar 5 #2

cannot speak directly to the DU thing stopdiggin Mar 5 #3

Ya, thought it odd as well. a kennedy Mar 6 #4

It comes up about once or twice a week for me. mwmisses4289 Mar 6 #6