Repeated Captchas in the past few days

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I keep getting asked to complete a captcha.

This onyl started in teh apst few days.

Sometimes it takes me about 1 minute to 'pass the test'.

Clicking images of bicycles and fire hydrants gets tiring very quickly.

For me, the site is unusable in this state.

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SA Jacob Maltz
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Sorry for the inconvenience.  Are you doing anything special with your network or your usage of Seeking ALpha which might make our security software think you are a bot ?

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jcat90

No.

It happens after I've read a few pages (<10).

The captcha is shown when I click a stock ticker.

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SA Ilya Kaplan

Hello,

Our bot protection system identified your requests as coming from many different users, thus each such "user" got its own captcha.
This could happen if you work on the shared IP with other users, e.g. corporate network, or if you have issues with your cookies, for example, if you have any extension that prevents cookie saving on seekingalpha.com.

We will investigate the case, but in meanwhile it will help if you tell us if the written above applies to you.

Thanks.

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jmcgoo- CMT

Nothing to do with me that I know of.  Just a private investor using a laptop.

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jmcgoo- CMT
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Nothing to do with me that I know of.  Just a private investor using a laptop.

I don't even know what a "captcha" is.  No corporate network here; just my wi-fi from Optimum