Checking my browser?
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Hello, what's this and why?
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Thanks... sometimes? I always get it. Any way to circumvent? Anything makes my browser looks like a bot?
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Hi @zhangdl, sorry to hear about the trouble.
To add on to what @Gwen-Dragon said, when you visit a (Vivaldi) web site your IP's reputation gets checked and depending on your IP's threat score you might be presented with a challenge.
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@jane-n Thank you for the explanation. How is the reputation determined? Vivaldi is not popular in this region yet. Do you get it from a third party? I'm worrying if someone's computer sharing the same IP with mine might be compromised...
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@zhangdl Reputation is generated on the Vivaldi forums by other users upvoting and downvoting a person's comments. Out on the wide web, an IP gets a reputation for generating spam by independent companies gathering up user reports of spam coming from a certain IP, or from security companies reporting participation in DDS attacks coming from an IP.
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@zhangdl said in Checking my browser?:
sharing the same IP with mine might be compromised...
Is your IP static or dynamic?
Mine is dynamic. In the past someone using the same IP assigned to my device was blacklisted. Wikipedia denied the access. disconnected from Internet, on the next connection my ISP assigned a new Internet Protocol, access granted on Wikipedia.
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@lamarca I get this in both my office and home. They are different ISP.....
And this forum is the only site I get this delay...
The message says "checking my browser". Does it matter which browser is used? Maybe I really should try Firefox.... :}
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@zhangdl It's just a guess, two different ISP's, two IP's - you didn't tell me if your IP static or dynamic - are you behind a Proxy?
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@lamarca I'm not sure.... I think one is static, but it's indeed shared by many people, and the other one is probably dynamic.
Does this help to solve the issue?
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@zhangdl I am just a Mod, only the Admin can help you, does it happen only with Vivaldi?
Static IP is a problem.