Just today, I'm having issues with the Cloudflare and nothing has changed since yesterday from my side (didn't clear cookies, change settings, etc....)

When I use my laptop and Firefox like I am now, I always have to click the Cloudflare check box.

On my mobile, I can't even get through using the native Huawei Navigator on HarmonyOS anymore, whereas it always worked fine outside mainland China. I check the box and it just loops and asks me to check it again.

I am based in France and Germany.

Based in Australia and getting the "confirm you're human" checkbox every few minutes. Built-in "Whale" browser on an LG Android phone. Also a "are you sure you want to resubmit?" when I reload a page. It does let me through but it's annoying.

I'm in Argentina and get this several times a day every time I go back into FT.

Today I am getting the human confirmation checkbox. I am on Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (the CNMI 🇺🇳 ), USA, about 120 miles north of Guam in the western Pacific.

Suddenly getting lots of cloudflare challenges here in Tokyo too, nothing has changed - same device, browser, still logged in.

Might be something to do with the bot attack at the weekend that IBJoel acknowledged and resulted in some database errors. Maybe IB techies have had to turn up the protection dial to keep services up and error free?

Same here in Greece. So far this is mildly annoying.

I’m logging in from Norway. I get asked if I’m a robot and then subsequently logs into a very paired down version of the website. With a VPN set to Norway it works.

I'm also now having to tick a box to say I'm a human every time I visit the forum.

Are the bots not able to click that tickbox?

Talked about this in another thread, but we're experiencing what is functionally a DDoS attack, so security settings are heightened for nearly everyone.

From what I understand, modern malicious actor/bot detection generally speaking (i.e. not specifically Cloudflare and/or FT) is a multi-layered approach based on multiple elements of a web request, ranging from things like historical traffic patterns from a particular IP space, down to specific things about the browser, claimed user agent vs. actual indicators, behind-the-scenes Javascript computational challenges, etc. Google search says they can also track things like mouse/pointer movement. So it's not necessarily the binary clicking or not-clicking of the box, which can obviously be done by machines (e.g. even non-maliciously when websites want to do automated QA testing), but how/when the clicking occurs in conjunction with everything else. Also sometimes the background stuff decides it has a strong enough signal that your request is legitimate and the request gets approved without you even having to click on anything at all.

No mouse pointer movement on my iPad with Safari, but maybe it can measure the jitteriness of my index finger while poking at the screen.

In any case, as others I am seeing the Cloudflare screen all the time at the moment,. I am currently traveling in Germany.

Getting the human challenge with every click now on FT. Really annoying. Location, Algarve, fixed network IP.
I'm giving up for today, this makes FT unusable.

In the weekend of the 20th of March I got the cloudflare verification pretty often while in KL running on a global e-sim was fine, using the WiFi at Park Hyatt got a verification ever so often.

Since Thursday 2nd I have been getting a cloudflare verification on almost every single navigational step in Japan using DoCoMo mobile data on Chrome, but also trying from my laptop on the corporate network in the office in Tokyo. Or via the corp vpn from the JAL lounge in Osaka.

Yup, Japan seems heavily affected by this. Have been getting the Cloudflare on my eSIM, TMobile US, and the WiFi of various ICs and CPs. Quite difficult to get anything accomplished.