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londons_explore on July 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspi...

Site down... Shows ReCAPTCHA in an infinite loop...

vezycash on July 20, 2020 [–]

>Site down... Shows ReCAPTCHA

I suppose this is cloudflare + their new captcha provider. This behavior is annoying / suspicious. They know the site is down, yet make people solve captcha repeatedly before finally telling them that the site is down.

wizzwizz4 on July 20, 2020 | | [–]

They're incentivised to do this. hCAPTCHA pays them for it.

donarb on July 20, 2020 | | | [–]

Well, the site may be active once you are finally able to solve the CAPTCHA.

londons_explore on July 20, 2020 | | [–]

Curious... The page I saw was actual Google Recaptcha...

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