It’s really annoying to be logged in and working in my store and have to be interrupted periodically to prove I am human.
Kal Vernon
13 Likes
same issue 😓
1 Like
Yes I just posted about this 😠
1 Like
I am experiencing the same thing. I couldn’t do anything this morning until I tried clearing my browsing history and then logged out and turned my laptop on and off. That worked for a few hours and then I had to do it all over again. Very frustrating and a giant waste of time. Thanks for posting, so I know it isn’t just me.
5 Likes
Hey,
I will pass this on now!
Thanks 
7 Likes
Good to know I’m not the only one experiencing this.
2 Likes
It’s just another CAPTCHA/anti-bot thing.
2 Likes
I’ve had that appear on occasion.
1 Like
Both myself and my mom in two separate houses are getting this since yesterday. Sometimes every few seconds. And not it’s routinely failing and saying ‘check internet connection’. It also is taking about 5 seconds for the button to even load.
2 Likes
Firefox browser - getting it every time I try and do something
site is unusable for me today - unable to get to the store backend so I’m off for the day
edited to add - am in the UK @Zizzago is Australia so perhaps it’s an international bot detection process going overboard
@jophb are you in the US or elsewhere?
2 Likes
@Fiona I think this might be a bigger issue. I’ve never had problems, nor has my mom (in a separate house), and all of a sudden both of us have been having this issue consistently since yesterday. In addition to the screen coming up every few seconds (sometimes every tiny action I take), it takes about 5 seconds for the ‘press & hold’ button to even appear. And now it’s failing regularly. And sometimes it will say ‘check internet connection’ (which I know is ok because everything else, including my streaming TV is OK). My mom is having the same issues as well.
3 Likes
I’m in the US and on a Chrome browser
3 Likes
Very annoying…happening all day today, I’m in the US and on Firefox
3 Likes
I’ve found that logging out and back in again can help to reassure the anti-bot detector that I am real (whereas holding a key down for a few seconds didn’t seem to work earlier today, even after about 10 attempts).
I wonder if this comes in phases… I had it earlier today too. Pressing and holding worked for about 1 second until the ‘press & hold’ request appeared again - I was going round in circles with it. Eventually, logging out, and back in, seemed to do the trick
3 Likes
This is happening on nearly every page I open today. And even after I get the check mark, it makes me do it again. It is making the site frustratingly unusable.
3 Likes
I haven’t gotten attacked by that today, but some days it hits me and it’s SO frustrating! Not quite as bad as the endless pages of “find all the squares with cars, and then bridges, and then motorcycles, and then crosswalks, and then mountains, etc. etc.!”
5 Likes
Getting it all of a sudden the last few days too. I’ve also noticed that the site has been behaving badly - pictures not loading or taking forever etc. Makes me wonder if they’re dealing with a DoS attack or something and the “prove you’re not a bot” thing is an attempt to deal with the problem.
5 Likes
I no longer use the image option which I find as frustrating and circular you do. Since i’ve started using the voice option, it’s more palatable. It forces you to listen to a phrase, often mostly unintelligible but for a couple of words, then I bring up the microphone and repeat the words I recognize. (You can type words in as well.) One word sometimes works, but I usually try for 2-3 which is more reliable. Occasionally I can’t understand or hear a very low volume phrase, but you just opt for a new one. I find this method way faster, easier and far less frustrating.
1 Like