Ancestry Capcha Challenge

[familydar]

I do all my research on my pc which connects via ethernet, however I routinely check rootschat, ancestry and a few other sites over breakfast on a tablet which has a wifi connection.  I've resisted going fftp and my router is a few years old.  For the past couple of weeks at least when I use the tablet to check ancestry I get a capcha challenge.  I suspect this is because my router is wpa2 secured and things have moved on.  Any insights anyone?

Jane :-)

[AngusMcCoatup]

My understanding is the captcha is presented when the website being visited is unsure as to whether the requesting device could be a bot or human operated. That is related to your browsing behaviour leading up to visiting the site, your online activity, etc. Sometimes I visit a website with a newly started browser and I get a login prompt straight away, other times I do get a captcha presented so I do not know what kind of activity/behaviour it looks for.

The website (ancestry in this case) may be aware the originating device may be a wireless device as the request may come through including information such as browser type, device screen size, or whether it is a mobile device and has to format the webpage differently for presentation. But websites are only communicating with the router via https and it is up to the router to communicate with the originating device via wpa2 security protocol to your tablet.

[Zaphod99]

I'm still trying to work out exactly what is a fire hydrant?

And is a cross walk something you do when you're angry and want to get to the other side of the road?

Zaph

[LizzieW]

Yes, often American words and American pictures.  Traffic lights pictures are often a problem because they're not like ours.  Also, when asked for bikes or motorbikes, are we supposed to click on a square that just has the end of a handlebar? I hate those Captcha things, on occasions I've had to do them 3 or 4 times before I get the "right" pictures.

It was invented by a Guatemalan-American, from a single parent family, who sold the company to Google in 2009, I had read somewhere that he regrets inventing it because he hadn't realised how annoying it could be.  He's also co-founder of Duolingo with one of his graduate students.

[Spelk]

Ignoring the Topic Diversion.
My devices are all connected to the router wirelessly; two computers, tablet and phone (all Apple) an I do not recall ever, at lest not recently, having to use a Capcha with Ancestry. Browsers I use are Safari, Brave and Opera.
As no one else on here has reported a similar issue then it is more likely some change in your set up than something Ancestry have done.
So have you recently added a new device to your household, cleared your cache, added a VPN?

[familydar]

Spelk, none of the above.  It only happens (so far) with Ancestry, although a visitor a couple of months back got an "insecure" message when he connected his laptop to my wifi.  A google search at the time suggested this might be due to outdated network security but my router uses wpa2.  Surely Ancestry doesn't expect the whole world to be using wpa3?

Given the age of the kit in question, and my previous life in IT, I'm guessing that my ISP doesn't expect anyone to be using kit as elderly as mine so the message passed on down the line to Ancestry includes some sort of "we're not sure where this came from" flag, which sets virtual alarm bells ringing at Ancestry, hence the capcha challenge.  I can't explain the laptop issue but he won't be coming back!

Jane :-)

[Spelk]

Took me a while to find it but looks like my router is also on mpa2. The router is newish from BT last year. My iMac is 9 years old. Other bits are newer.

[rosie17]

I have the same problem when using my tablet it's just in the last week it's started a bit of a nuisance
It's okay when using Ancestry on my laptop

Rosie

[familydar]

Rosie, I reckon it's a plot to make us all replace our old tablets in the black Friday sales!

Jane :-)