Cite as: Real Problem AI problem “Why do I keep getting "verify you are human" checks on almost every website?”. Opportunity score 7.5 out of 10 (severity 7, AI feasibility 8, market signal 8, competition gap 7). Category Others. Trend Bots & Scraping. Source signal: Hacker News "Getting hit with 'Prove you are a human' at every other website", 3 November 2026, 81 points, 42 comments.. Canonical URL: https://www.realproblem.ai/idea/why-do-i-keep-getting-verify-you-are-human-checks-on-every-website.
Why do I keep getting "verify you are human" checks on almost every website?
Bot walls from Cloudflare, Anubis and reCAPTCHA now stop ordinary readers on a large share of the pages they open, and the sites behind them rarely know how many real visitors give up, because the default protection settings were turned on to fight AI scrapers and nobody measures the humans caught in them.
Who has it: Everyday web users on VPNs, privacy browsers or travel connections who hit challenge pages all day, and the small site owners and marketers whose real visitors are quietly blocked by default bot settings.
- Severity7/10
- Feasible today8/10
- Market signal8/10
- Competition gap7/10
Heard in public
“That was happening on our websites at work, and users started complaining about it. The problem was due to the cloudflare default settings, which we dialed down in response to the complaints.”
Quoted word for word from the public post linked below. Nobody submitted it to Real Problem AI.
Hacker News "Getting hit with 'Prove you are a human' at every other website", 3 November 2026, 81 points, 42 comments.What nothing does yet
A tool for site owners that measures how many real human visitors are challenged, fail or leave at the bot wall, separates them from scrapers, and tunes the rules so humans pass while AI crawlers stay blocked, plus a simple reader side check that tells people which setting of theirs is getting them flagged.
Tools that solve this
3 named so far, and where each one stops.
- Cloudflare bot settings and Turnstile
Site owners can lower the challenge level, but one commenter only did so after users complained, since the dashboard does not show how many real people gave up.
- Browser CAPTCHA solver extensions (Buster, NopeCHA)
A reader in the thread uses two of them as a band aid; they solve the puzzle but not the reason the browser keeps getting flagged.
- Turning off the VPN or privacy add-ons
Several replies say VPNs, privacy plugins and incognito mode trigger the checks, so users trade privacy for access.
How you might build it
- 01Edge log and analytics ingestion (Cloudflare, Fastly, Vercel)
- 02Challenge funnel metrics (shown, solved, abandoned)
- 03Bot versus human classification
- 04Rule tuning suggestions per path
- 05Browser extension for reader side diagnosis
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