Getting weird sign in messages on posts

[underpants]

I’ve seen two of these. I think it’s people posting from X but I could be wrong.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. This is a new one to me. If you are unsure of where a msg. is coming from, I don't know if I would touch/open,

perhaps alert the DU administrator(s) of this.

[EarlG]

2. As far as I can tell, that's a Google problem, but it's also an Apple problem

You're being asked to fill out a Captcha when you're trying to load DU pages which contain content loaded directly from Google (in this case, a YouTube video).

This issue came up a little while ago (before the switch to DU4) -- it seems that it affects people who are trying to load Google content on an Apple device. It was happening to me too on my phone for a while. But then the issue went away and people stopped mentioning it, so it appeared to be resolved. Looks like it's back though.

There's some info about it at these links:

Info for Apple users: https://www.iphonetricks.org/getting-google-captcha-on-iphone-ipad-mac/

General info: https://www.thetechwire.com/why-am-i-getting-captcha-on-every-site/

Unfortunately I don't think there's anything I can do about this because it's happening at Google's end, sorry

[FSogol]

3. Those captcha sign-ins are to prevent robots from posting. Have you been replaced

by a robot lately, "underpants"?

[underpants]

4. No. Definitely not

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