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Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by blue_dragon » 2026-05-06, 02:39

no error stack trace in the console at all. just refresh loops

https://xdaforums.com/t/rakein-app-i-ne ... e.2509202/

wish there was a law to send all those dehumanised web developers that dont care a bit about Pale Moon to prison

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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by Night Wing » 2026-05-06, 03:36

@ blue_dragon

After clicking on the link you provided (thank you for that) I went straight to the site in almost the "blink of an eye" time wise. I never ran into a security check.

At the time of this post I am using 64 bit (GTK2) linux Pale Moon 34.2.2 running in 64 bit MX Linux 25.1 (Infinity) Xfce.
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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by blue_dragon » 2026-05-06, 03:39

it doesnt seem to always appear. it looks like this to took a screenshot when i first opened this post
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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by Night Wing » 2026-05-06, 03:42

blue_dragon wrote:
2026-05-06, 03:39
it doesnt seem to always appear. it looks like this to took a screenshot when i first opened this post
I clicked on the link in your first post again and I went straight to the site as fast as I went there the first time.
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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by blue_dragon » 2026-05-06, 03:49

Night Wing wrote:
2026-05-06, 03:42
blue_dragon wrote:
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it doesnt seem to always appear. it looks like this to took a screenshot when i first opened this post
I clicked on the link in your first post again and I went straight to the site as fast as I went there the first time.
again it doesnt seem to always happen. i also rebooted on a different OS & i passed thru without that idiotic security check but theres no gaurantee that only XDA uses that idiotic security check system so it needs to be somehow mitigated

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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by Night Wing » 2026-05-06, 03:58

Just curious.

Since you are using two different operating systems, what was the OS that failed and what was the OS that let you through without any problem?
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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by blue_dragon » 2026-05-06, 04:03

same but just different profiles

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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by Night Wing » 2026-05-06, 04:13

I switched over to my second SSD which is installed with 64 bit linux Debian 13.4 (Trixie) Xfce. Clicked on the link you provided in your first post and I went straight to the site for the third time and did not get the security check. And it was as fast as the other two times.

If it is intermittent, it is going to be hard to find the problem.
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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by blue_dragon » 2026-05-06, 04:20

then we maybe need to find a different web site that uses this same idiotically stupid & inappropriate security check system that doesnt deserve to exist in this world as it doesnt even properly support PM

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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by Moonchild » 2026-05-06, 05:51

Looks like it's a Cloudflare check, just using a custom template
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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by blue_dragon » 2026-05-06, 11:06

Moonchild wrote:
2026-05-06, 05:51
Looks like it's a Cloudflare check, just using a custom template
hmm but Cloudflare seems to be fixed recently. im on the latest version. also that system uses WebAssembly

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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by Night Wing » 2026-05-06, 11:37

This is just a wild guess on my part.

I seem to be having no problem getting to the sites where I do not encounter the CF prompt, but it seems other people on here either cannot get to the sites or it takes them a very long time for that site's page to show up. This is the reason why I list my screenshot of those problem sites.

Since I am using a linux distro, MX Linux (and without an anti-virus program) as my daily driver OS wise, could it be a Windows problem combined with their Windows Defender anti-virus installed program? Or could it be some setting in Pale Moon or an extension where some people really like to harden down their browser for privacy reasons?
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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by Moonchild » 2026-05-06, 11:39

Just what it looked like to me, especially with the footer tossing a unique ID (assuming, since it was blurred out) and having the same wording.
I don't get any challenges myself on it, by the way, so I can't verify. I may be wrong and it could be a different system.
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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by jobbautista9 » 2026-05-06, 12:19

Night Wing wrote:
2026-05-06, 11:37
Or could it be some setting in Pale Moon
A possibility could be HTTP/2 being disabled (network.http.spdy.enabled.http2 in about:config), forcing HTTP/1.1 to be used for all sites like I've done. It tends to trigger a captcha from Cloudflare. You might be able to avoid the captcha while keeping HTTP/2 disabled by using a SSUAO that doesn't have Mozilla/5.0, but YMMV.
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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by BenFenner » 2026-05-06, 13:43

I mean, a quick visit to https://bunny.net shows this is almost assuredly not Cloudflare.

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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by back2themoon » 2026-05-06, 13:44

Night Wing wrote:
2026-05-06, 03:36
After clicking on the link you provided (thank you for that) I went straight to the site in almost the "blink of an eye" time wise. I never ran into a security check.
Same here, Windows 10, 34.2.2 SSE2.

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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by Night Wing » 2026-05-06, 13:59

BenFenner wrote:
2026-05-06, 13:43
I mean, a quick visit to https://bunny.net shows this is almost assuredly not Cloudflare.
I think you are correct. After clicking on your provided link, it took me to the Bunny site in less than one second of time. No CF challenge or any other security check. And still using my MX Linux with the newest version of linux (GTK2) Pale Moon.
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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by Gemmaugr » 2026-05-06, 17:17

back2themoon wrote:
2026-05-06, 13:44
Night Wing wrote:
2026-05-06, 03:36
After clicking on the link you provided (thank you for that) I went straight to the site in almost the "blink of an eye" time wise. I never ran into a security check.
Same here, Windows 10, 34.2.2 SSE2.
same here too, but AVX.
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Re: Can't pass XDA Forums bunny security check

Post by Moonchild » 2026-05-06, 19:34

BenFenner wrote:
2026-05-06, 13:43
I mean, a quick visit to https://bunny.net shows this is almost assuredly not Cloudflare.
Like I said I may be wrong and it could be a different system. I just stated what it, at first glance, looked like to me.
Instead it looks like a competitor to CF, and gives me the same vibes CF gave me when they first started out ;) Let's hope they don't go down the same path as they grow.
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