HACKER Q&A
📣 jrajav

Have you been served an unexpected Cloudflare captcha on Firefox?


I've been trying out Firefox again on my new install. I saw a Cloudflare 'browser check' pop up for a handful of random websites, which blocked me for a second or two before redirecting, and didn't think anything of it. But just now, I was logged in to a popular coding website clicking an internal link, and Cloudflare served me a captcha challenge.

There's nothing novel at all about my setup. I'm on macOS, home internet, I don't run any servers, only extension installed is ublock origin. Have never once seen these screens before starting to use Firefox again in the past few weeks, so I can only guess that's the only variable here. Thus, reaching out to see if this might be a shared experience.


  👤 azalemeth Accepted Answer ✓
It is, unfortunately. Some of it is how many other cookies you have and some of it is just not being Chrome on Windows or Safari on macOS. You get used to it...