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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by flamelord » 2026-04-28, 20:51

Night Wing wrote:
2026-04-28, 20:30
Kand_in_Sky wrote:
2026-04-28, 14:36
Night Wing wrote:
2026-04-28, 13:06
In order for me to post something, I was asked to give that site my email address to continue.
No way! There's something going on on your system.
Yes, way. When I was ready to submit a comment, a pop-up occurred asking me to submit my email address. And I declined. And that is when I left the site.

BTW, there is nothing going with my system. After all, I am not the one having problems.
I concur with Kand
4chan doesn't ask for your e-mail address, unless you're range-banned... which Hiro has started doing in order to push users to buy the pass
Happened in the past even under Moot of course, but Hiro is infamous for it for what he did in 2channel

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by flamelord » 2026-04-28, 21:43

Just checked 4chan and again it keeps looping

Other sites like imginn like e.g https://imginn.com/sydney_sweeney also are stuck looping :x

Fuck cloudscum :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by Night Wing » 2026-04-28, 21:48

flamelord wrote:
2026-04-28, 20:51
4chan doesn't ask for your e-mail address, unless you're range-banned... which Hiro has started doing in order to push users to buy the pass
Happened in the past even under Moot of course, but Hiro is infamous for it for what he did in 2channel
Off-topic:
Let me get this straight.

Kand asked me me to make a comment on that site. So I tried and the site requested my email address when I hit the Submit button. Then you said I am range banned and this is why the site asked for my email address. I do not know what range banned is. I also don't know who Hiro is and I do not care. To the point. I've never visited that site until this topic thread came up. And now I have no interest in visiting that site ever again.
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by Gemmaugr » 2026-04-28, 22:09

flamelord wrote:
2026-04-28, 21:43
Just checked 4chan and again it keeps looping

Other sites like imginn like e.g https://imginn.com/sydney_sweeney also are stuck looping :x

Fuck cloudscum :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x
Cloudflare challenge works for me on imginnn (and it says that profile doesn't exist/Not Found).

4chan also works for me. Posting as well, and after the challenge was passed, I had to wait 60 seconds OR verify my email to post.

So, you should probably post your About:Support too.
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by back2themoon » 2026-04-28, 22:18

flamelord wrote:
2026-04-28, 21:43
Just checked 4chan and again it keeps looping
As mentioned, works fine here.
flamelord wrote:
2026-04-28, 21:43
Other sites like imginn like e.g https://imginn.com/sydney_sweeney also are stuck looping :x
Works fine too, although no hot Sweeney pics after the check so I guess that's a fail. Two questions:

a) Do you actually wait? It needs time, often more than a minute and the "Verify..." tick-box might appear more than once. So you will have to click it every time it appears, and wait more.

b) Are you sure you are not blocking challenges.cloudflare.com in any way?

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by flamelord » 2026-04-28, 23:02

back2themoon wrote:
2026-04-28, 22:18


a) Do you actually wait? It needs time, often more than a minute and the "Verify..." tick-box might appear more than once.
Ok, this is just insulting.
Why don't you just check my recent post history before mouthing off?

I did wait several minutes. Tickbox does not appear at all in either site, it just keeps looping.
I mentioned that I was on the SSE2 build on Windows 7. Which if you bothered to read the last few pages or just check my recent post history you wouldn't make this worthless post.

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by flamelord » 2026-04-28, 23:08

Gemmaugr wrote:
2026-04-28, 22:09

So, you should probably post your About:Support too.
Or maybe you should read the last couple of pages where I mentioned I was on the SSE2 build on Windows 7?
I am the creator of this thread ffs.

But if you insist
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by flamelord » 2026-04-28, 23:17

Night Wing wrote:
2026-04-28, 21:48

Off-topic:
Let me get this straight.

Kand asked me me to make a comment on that site. So I tried and the site requested my email address when I hit the Submit button. Then you said I am range banned and this is why the site asked for my email address. I do not know what range banned is. I also don't know who Hiro is and I do not care. To the point. I've never visited that site until this topic thread came up. And now I have no interest in visiting that site ever again.
Off-topic:
Dude, can you please stop freaking out and talk like a normal person?
The thing as you described it has never happened to me on 4chan. Only sometimes when there's an IP range ban does it ask you to confirm your e-mail which people just use throwaway emails to login. Hiroyuki is the owner of 4chan(also ex-owner of Japanese imageboard 2channel the original 4chan), moot(Christopher Poole) sold him the site in 2015.

Anyways, I'm not saying you're lying since who knows what they've done to the site in recent times and I haven't created a thread over there in a while
Maybe it does ask your e-mail to create a thread, I should test this on Chropera right now

Here is how it appears to me in Chropera
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Yes, you have to wait 5 minutes to post a new thread or sign in with e-mail, they did it to slow down traffic but not sure if it worked

But to make a post inside a random thread you only have to wait 60 seconds the first time around

UPDATE: Was able to post a thread on 4chan no e-mail required(on Chropera obviously). So I'm unsure if you're just trolling me and Kand or if you just don't understand the antiquated interface
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by Gemmaugr » 2026-04-28, 23:42

flamelord wrote:
2026-04-28, 23:08
Gemmaugr wrote:
2026-04-28, 22:09

So, you should probably post your About:Support too.
Or maybe you should read the last couple of pages where I mentioned I was on the SSE2 build on Windows 7?
I am the creator of this thread ffs.

But if you insist

aboutsupport.PNG
We are not you, and you should learn that the world does not assume people have photographic memory.

Also, that's not how you post the About:Support, unless you have something to hide, like NoScript?

Anyway, Flamelord, chill.
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by flamelord » 2026-04-29, 00:12

Gemmaugr wrote:
2026-04-28, 23:42


We are not you, and you should learn that the world does not assume people have photographic memory.

Also, that's not how you post the About:Support, unless you have something to hide, like NoScript?

Anyway, Flamelord, chill.
You can literally just check my recent post history or the last few pages of this thread. There is no excuse but sheer laziness.
If you're posting in this thread(which I know you are), you probably read the last 2-3 pages of it already.

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by Moonchild » 2026-04-29, 02:35

Look, I understand that this whole thing is frustrating for everyone here, but everyone please chill, okay?

It's currently intermittent. I have emailed both contacts at CF this Monday relaying the info and asking them to address it with some priority now because this isn't working as it is. I have not yet received a reply. As frustrating as this is for the people here because it's intermittent, let's please focus any anger not on each other but on the people responsible, alright? CF uses staged roll-outs across the globe and what may work for someone might not for others, or not right away.

This isn't a problem with Pale Moon or any one's individual profile per se; so don't try to point fingers at hhat right away. Yes, even for me there is a hang and then checkbox right now, which isn't ideal. But it still passes for me after that. That could be the same for others or it could be worse or better. I don't know what's going on at CF but it's a mess, and they are once again not doing what they should, neither in communication nor in fixing their guard dogs' training.
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by Kand_in_Sky » 2026-04-29, 05:29

Night Wing wrote:
2026-04-28, 20:30
Yes, way. When I was ready to submit a comment, a pop-up occurred asking me to submit my email address.
Really don't want to go to much off-topic, there are reasons for this
https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuesti ... ation_and/

Anyway usually before a post on 4chan there is a cloudflare check, if you haven't change your ip or deleted cookies since the last time.
Yesterday on my win7 system it keeps looping, on the win10 it passes.

Now it passes also on win7. Whatever was the reason, they fixed it, for the next few days at least. :crazy:
For me 4chan is the first adress for a cloudflare check.
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by back2themoon » 2026-04-29, 10:07

flamelord wrote:
2026-04-28, 23:02
Why don't you just check my recent post history before mouthing off?...
I have. All is I see is "4chan".
flamelord wrote:
2026-04-28, 23:08
Gemmaugr wrote:
2026-04-28, 22:09
So, you should probably post your About:Support too.
Or maybe you should read the last couple of pages where I mentioned I was on the SSE2 build on Windows 7? But if you insist:
Thank you, your Highness. There's a blatant about:support issue right there in front of you. Good luck finding it.
flamelord wrote:
2026-04-28, 23:02
...you wouldn't make this worthless post...
I am sure posting about 4chan ten times/day is worthier.
flamelord wrote:
2026-04-28, 23:08
I am the creator of this thread ffs.
Right, you had... wait for it... 4chan issues.

Get some manners and lay off 4chan or whatever is triggering you. Withdrawal syndrome is no joke.

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by flamelord » 2026-04-29, 18:39

I am not going to even bother with that engagement bait
Go back to xitter, if that's your thing, but I have no interest in it

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Anyways
Another day, CF still loops :/

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by flamelord » 2026-05-01, 20:15

This shit fixed itself for a day or two and it's once again back to the usual looping shit :(

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by frostknight » 2026-05-01, 22:01

Moonchild wrote:
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Look, I understand that this whole thing is frustrating for everyone here, but everyone please chill, okay?
This...
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by JoeyGreen » 2026-05-02, 00:33

back2themoon wrote:
2026-04-28, 22:18
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flamelord wrote:
2026-04-28, 21:43
Other sites like imginn like e.g https://imginn.com/sydney_sweeney also are stuck looping :x
Works fine too, although no hot Sweeney pics after the check ...
add / at the end of url, like this:

Code: Select all

https://imginn.com/sydney_sweeney/
so the pic shows up, it just normal Sweeny pics tho.

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by Kand_in_Sky » 2026-05-02, 07:32

It's weekend and guess what happend.

Endless looping on imginn and 4chan. Even if checkbox appears, it keeps after that looping.
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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by back2themoon » 2026-05-02, 09:53

Kand_in_Sky wrote:
2026-05-02, 07:32
Endless looping on imginn
I just tried imginn. The CF check was quick and successful (on my AVX laptop).

Having said that, quite frequently the CF Verification Clicking 'n' Looping™ procedure can struggle for two minutes or more. I don't think this is website-specific. It seems random and 100% Cloudflare-related.

On all these annoying occasions, persisting till the end always made the CF test succeed. I still haven't had a single failure, anywhere.

I am mainly on the SSE2 build. I don't know if this goddamn CF check greatly benefits from AVX processors, thus making it quicker. But having to struggle for minutes is ridiculous, even if I were on a ZX Spectrum.

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Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

Post by thosrtanner » 2026-05-02, 20:07

i got hit by it today. again. I had to disable ublock and umatrix to get through it and it nearly paralyzed the browser twice while checking.