Neopets Site-Wide Blocks and Captchas

**Pug** · 09-13-2019

Originally Posted by Odd

I'm reopening this due to additional shenanigans. The Neopets team has begun rolling out captcha verification for the entire site, as well as measures to altogether block access to the site from certain IP addresses. We are not yet aware of the extent of these changes, however any interruption to your Neopets experience will also affect the use of programs and scripts. Please be careful to limit your use of any bots until further notice.

Thanks, @(you need an account to see links). Be careful guys! I walked away for 10 mins and came back to be greeted with this:

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Clearing browser cache seems to get around it, although it could be that bans only last for a short time.

**Stardew** · 09-13-2019

More shenanigans? Ugh.

I was wondering why some pages were just coming up as completely blank. I assume those should be captchas that are just not loading for me. Brilliant.
GOOD GRIEF TNT. How to annoy your crumbling, PAYING player base 101!

**Pug** · 09-13-2019

A (legit) guild member was also blocked when she opened her dailies folder consisting of 53 tabs. Some small re-assurance for anybody who's already been blocked that legit users are also getting locked out, I imagine their Stackpath logs are already quite full with a mix of both cheaters and legitimate users.

**xCarRadio** · 09-13-2019

**Furina** · 09-13-2019

**~~Daviid~~** · 09-13-2019

Originally Posted by Odd

I'm reopening this due to additional shenanigans. The Neopets team has begun rolling out captcha verification for the entire site, as well as measures to altogether block access to the site from certain IP addresses. We are not yet aware of the extent of these changes, however any interruption to your Neopets experience will also affect the use of programs and scripts. Please be careful to limit your use of any bots until further notice.

I haven't seen sitewide captcha yet though, is it only for VPNs?

Edit: Apparently it's for multiple fast requests, such as playing NQ2, according to someone in the boards.

**master4you2** · 09-13-2019

I haven't seen anything through my vpn yet.

**Sarada** · 09-13-2019

Originally Posted by Daviid

I haven't seen sitewide captcha yet though, is it only for VPNs?

A friend of mine got the stackpath screen without using programs nor vpns. So I imagine you can get captchas too.

**Bat** · 09-13-2019

Originally Posted by Daviid

I haven't seen sitewide captcha yet though, is it only for VPNs?

We've gotten a few reports from players in Brazil who are getting hit with captcha pages while browsing the site itself:

Everybody else seems to be reporting temporary bans from the site.

**master4you2** · 09-13-2019

Jeezzz.. I'll put the site down till they get their shit together.

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