Who is checking my browser?

[rbiemer]

Twice today--once while on my phone using Chrome and just now on my laptop, also using Chrome, I popped by to read a bit here and after clicking on my book mark for RFF, instead I got another page very briefly that read something about "just checking your browser" and that I would be re-directed shortly.
I looked at my history and that page is not showing. Anyone else seeing this?

Rob

 

[ptpdprinter]

Yes, each time I have logged on to the site this afternoon.

 

[sepiareverb]

Here too, on Safari.

 

[seany65]

I got it once a few minutes ago when clicking on a google link to a thread here about zeiss ikon filter numbering, but I dind't get it when I came to this site to log-in.

 

[MrFujicaman]

They're checking for that ((%#$^%^& ransomware that's been in the news.

 

[Godfrey]

Twice today--once while on my phone using Chrome and just now on my laptop, also using Chrome, I popped by to read a bit here and after clicking on my book mark for RFF, instead I got another page very briefly that read something about "just checking your browser" and that I would be re-directed shortly.
I looked at my history and that page is not showing. Anyone else seeing this?

Rob

Yes, I see it too. Seems there's been a change to RFF in the past two days. I couldn't see the forum at all for a day and a half, and now I get this message about every third page I move to.

G

 

[dmr]

I haven't seen that one, but I was getting some Cloudflare errors on this site earlier today.

 

[citizen99]

Me too, yesterday.
I'm also accustomed to seeing, on some other sites, exhortations to 'upgrade' the browser in use at the time, as they have evidently probed for functionality to run all of the site content. Often this is to run cr*pware so I just ignore it.

 

[newfilm]

Twice today--once while on my phone using Chrome and just now on my laptop, also using Chrome, I popped by to read a bit here and after clicking on my book mark for RFF, instead I got another page very briefly that read something about "just checking your browser" and that I would be re-directed shortly.
I looked at my history and that page is not showing. Anyone else seeing this?

Rob

That's fine, it's for RFF server protection against DDoS attack. The note about the ransomeware that is currently on the news is a different thing, IMO its blown of of proportion, anyone likes big news right? 🙂