It's simply paranoia. Cloudflare can let you adjust how strictly you protect your site against DDoS attacks. You can tell Cloudflare not to trust people, and you can make some of them do a Captcha to look at your website if you really want. Of course, Cloudflare would love to advertise itself to customers by telling website visitors that hey, this website is protected by Cloudflare, yeah, Cloudflare, the discerning webmaster's choice, get it today, Cloudflare! This gives them an incentive to tell you if a website is protected by Cloudflare.

Something is probably going on with your IP address, or addresses in the same block. Cloudflare is supposed to be transparent to legitimate users, but to block DDoS attacks; there's naturally a grey area of suspicion in the middle. A device on your network might have been hacked, or you might have been allocated an IP address by your ISP that was previously used in a DDoS attack.

The simple tick-box captcha is very sophisticated under the skin and only really works because Google are operating a giant panopticon.

https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/

>confirmation that the user is human (with a simple button click, strangely).

reCaptca v3 no longer needs you clicking through pictures of bicycles, traffic lights and mountains. It quietly observes your interaction with a given web site and then determines automatically if you are a bot or a human.

>>28260
When I've had the Cloudflare Captcha, it was for 4chan and I had to do an hCaptcha, which is a different company. I despise Google's Captcha because it's obscene to make me work for free to train the AI for one of the world's largest and most sinister corporations in order to visit websites that aren't even owned by Google, but I didn't mind hCaptcha because at least I'm being enslaved by a plucky upstart company.

On the Playstation support website, to speak to a customer service person, the verification method you get given a number, and then a series of pictures of dice. You have to pick the picture in which the dice add up to the given number. Some dice have normal numbers on, others have the dots. You have to do 5 of these to get through. I hate them. I struggle to process dice dots so it takes me longer than it should.

>>28260
>Something is probably going on with your IP address, or addresses in the same block
>A device on your network might have been hacked
I'm leaning toward these being that I regularly reset my router, but again it might be paranoia. I've considered using wireshark to monitor traffic but i doubt I need any more flags on my system. Besides, if something can be hidden from the task manager it can be obscured in network traffic - especially to someone who doesn't know what they're looking for.

>>28261
>It quietly observes your interaction with a given web site and then determines automatically if you are a bot or a human.
Oh, interesting. I've been right to consciously pilot my mouse pointer around the questionable material of the web, then.

>>28264

>Oh, interesting. I've been right to consciously pilot my mouse pointer around the questionable material of the web, then


The exact algorithm of how it works isn't known, for obvious reasons, but there are ways in which a human user behaves both consciously and subconsciously that are apparently a lot different from a bot. But in essence, it's all done in the background without you actively having to solve a captcha.


https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3?hl=en

>reCAPTCHA v3 returns a score for each request without user friction.

>reCAPTCHA v3 returns a score (1.0 is very likely a good interaction, 0.0 is very likely a bot).