Cloudflare "Verifying you are human. This may take a few seconds."

Verify you are human by completing the action below.
[ ] Verify you are human [Cloudflare]
[website] needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.

Checking the box turns it into a dancing circle with, Verifying… but then returns to the same [ ] Verify you are human [Cloudflare] message after a few seconds.

I have seen where other people have had the same issue but nobody at Brave has acknowledged it or offered any solutions. It occurs with and without extensions enabled, in a private window or a regular window. It occurs both with and without a functioning VPN. The same verification process works fine in Firefox and in Chrome, so it’s definitely a Brave issue.

Would appreciate a remedy to this problem.

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Tips regarding Brave Shields:

I have more success, with:

  • Brave Shields UP
  • Either Allow All Cookies or Block 3rd Party Cookies, but NOT Blocking All Cookies
  • Allowing JavaScripts from specific sources, but NOT Allowing All JavaScripts
  • Trackers & Ads treatment: Aggressive (at first), and then incrementally relaxing that setting
  • Fingerprinting (aka footprinting) blocking: Strict (at first), and then incrementally relaxing that setting

I almost NEVER use:

  • All of Brave Shields UP
  • All of Brave Shields DOWN

In other words, I “inch my way along” . . . trying to find what satisfies the website-and-Cloudflare communal whatever (it varies, depending upon the website and its association with Cloudflare).

Sometimes, the website serves the visitor’s Internet browser; but sometimes, a Cloudflare webserver does the serving.

Anyway, I recommend the slow approach.


Study:

Shields Basics

How do I configure global and site-specific Shields settings?

How do I use Shields while browsing?


And it occurs with or without Brave Shields up.

Along with my previous reply, the following applies. Do not deny the following possible sources of cookies/javascripts:

  • cdnjs.cloudflare.com
  • cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com
  • challenges.cloudflare.com
  • cloudflare.com
  • community.cloudflare.com
  • developers.cloudflare.com
  • embed.cloudflarestream.com
  • iframe.cloudflarestream.com
  • mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com
  • ot.www.cloudflare.com
  • static.cloudflareinsights.com
  • www.cloudflare.com

And do not have some firewall block any; and do not have your “hosts” file blocking any.

This also happened in my Brave browser recently. In my case, Cloudflare human check is working in Private Window mode, but not in the normal browser.

I turned off extensions one-by-one to get the root cause, it turned out disabling “No Service Worker” this extension would restore Cloudflare’s human check.

It seems Cloudfalre implementing new human check mechanism recently, which might include validation of service worker. There may be other checks in the recent rolling out, so the root cause in my case might not same as yours. But if you can browse in Private Window mode, then you can also use the same way to figure out which extension blocks Cloudflare’s human check.

Where you fo go to even do this? I cant find this anywhere in settings.,

I am not having the cloudflare issue on Brave Search everytime I go to search for anything.

@Lcw731

Using a desktop or laptop computer, running Brave Browser, in a New Window, go to:

brave://settings/content/javascript

There is a section where sources of javascripts that are NOT allowed, can and may be listed.

Inspect that section, when you encounter a Cloudflare issue.

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Thank you ! I will give that a try! never new about that page.

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