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Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Oct 25 2018 : 8:25AM I enabled a new security feature for the site yesterday afternoon. It's a Web Application Firewall (WAF) service from StackPath, our CDN provider. The WAF learns our typical traffic patterns and can be configured to block certain types of traffic. At it learns I'm tuning the rules and policies. So if you get a message like this we're aware and are monitoring things. If you browse this site from your own private VPN service hosted through an ISP or cloud hosting provider you are likely to get blocked with the current rules. We're wasting a huge amount of bandwidth to people crawling/scraping content using providers like Amazon Web Services. So we're blocking that kind of traffic for now. That may change in the future. If you get the captcha screen from StackPath it's because you're using the site in a way that doesn't match our 'normal' traffic patterns. Fill out the form to let the WAF know you're a real human and it will learn. Edited by - Drew Black on Oct 25 2018 Edited by - Drew Black on Nov 22 2018 [Link]
lex von v Senior Member 2511 Posts 12/12	Posted - Oct 25 2018 : 8:53AM yesterday (I think immediately after activation), I was blocked (but that issue has been solved today). My non-usual way of using the site (which I don't think is non-usual anyway) is opening a forum, and then opening the threads i'm interested in in separate tabs. Which to the webserver probably looks suspicious, since I'm opening ~10 pages in quick succession. But nothing more than that. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Oct 25 2018 : 11:57AM If you happen to be in China, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Pakistan, Banglasdesh or Malaysia you're likely going to be blocked as well. Edited by - Drew Black on 10/25/2018 11:58:17 AM [Link]
Mass Facialties Deactivated User "Facialized Vol. 7" 2021 AVN Awards Winner: Best Oral Movie 9308 Posts 9/13	Posted - Oct 25 2018 : 2:32PM Thanks for letting us know, Drew. I haven't been blocked, but the "type in the letters you see in this box" page did come up on me a couple times since yesterday. [Link]
joi Deactivated User 396 Posts 6/17	Posted - Nov 11 2018 : 9:32AM today i was blocked for some time. [Link]

grover All-Star Member Literotica.com - grover10 16888 Posts 11/04	Posted - Nov 16 2018 : 3:35PM I was just blocked but okay now. [Link]
Panoramata Senior Member 15839 Posts 11/06	Posted - Nov 18 2018 : 2:44AM I was blocked from the forum yesterday for some hours , but got no previous warning . I also did not have the possibility to fill out the form to prove that I´m human . Maybe unusual : I go to my list of subscribed topics and open many of them one after another and then post in some of them . I have similar tactics for the subforums etc ... I think many users have different ways of finding the threads relevant to them that may not be the same as the most linear ones . Edited by - airtight_fanatic on 11/22/2018 7:57:58 PM [Link]
joi Deactivated User 396 Posts 6/17	Posted - Dec 4 2018 : 6:44AM i was again blocked for several hours today. [Link]
LCF All-Star Member Non Prevalebunt! 10364 Posts 1/05	Posted - Dec 4 2018 : 4:57PM I've been repeatedly blocked , as it appears ,when it happened I wasn't using anything than a direct connection to the site , no VPN , what triggers such response sometimes after a long time of regular use is the button "back" or the link "All forums" or the button "refresh" . no form ever appeared Sometimes I leave a window on the forum while surfing elsewhere and then get back to ADT and refresh , could this be something seen as wrong? Though I do this often but Stackpath only blocked me twice after that I can't see anything else that could be a problem Edited by - LCF on 12/4/2018 4:58:34 PM [Link]
AggieGuy Member 357 Posts 7/15	Posted - Dec 20 2018 : 12:13AM I've been blocked several times. Usually it clears after a minute or two, but tonight it lasted for over an hour and perhaps longer. I'm in the US so not my location nor am I using a VPN/proxy. It seems to happen if I open more than a few threads in a short period of time, a lot like what Airtight_fanatic mentioned. Also never seen any kind of captcha option either when it happens. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Dec 20 2018 : 7:20AM I turned off one of the anti-scraper policy rules. Opening a bunch of tabs simultaneously might look like a content scraper's activity. I'll keep an eye on it. [Link]
AngryPirate Senior Member 3210 Posts 8/17	Posted - Dec 20 2018 : 7:33AM A reply of mine was blocked for typing a phrase in speech marks but when I removed them, my reply went through. [Link]
grover All-Star Member Literotica.com - grover10 16888 Posts 11/04	Posted - Dec 21 2018 : 9:18PM Just happened again! [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Dec 21 2018 : 10:17PM You were blocked or Captcha challenged? [Link]
AngryPirate Senior Member 3210 Posts 8/17	Posted - Dec 22 2018 : 7:37AM ^ I was blocked for trying to post with single and double quotes. I've been Captcha challenged for opening multiple tabs. [Link]

grover All-Star Member Literotica.com - grover10 16888 Posts 11/04	Posted - Dec 23 2018 : 11:45AM Drew Black wrote: You were blocked or Captcha challenged? Click to expand I was blocked. [Link]
AggieGuy Member 357 Posts 7/15	Posted - Dec 24 2018 : 5:58PM Thanks Drew Black. So far it hasn't happened again for me. [Link]
LCF All-Star Member Non Prevalebunt! 10364 Posts 1/05	Posted - Dec 26 2018 : 3:38PM ^ same here, though I might open multiple tabs but only one per site when I'm surfing over many different tasks [Link]
Mass Facialties Deactivated User "Facialized Vol. 7" 2021 AVN Awards Winner: Best Oral Movie 9308 Posts 9/13	Posted - Jan 24 2019 : 4:20PM Currently, I'm not having an issue with this, however, I have been getting the "504 Gateway Time-out" page repeatedly over the past two days. EDIT: Disregard. I created a separate thread for the issue. Edited by - Mass Facialties on 1/26/2019 12:29:43 AM [Link]
AngryPirate Senior Member 3210 Posts 8/17	Posted - Jan 26 2019 : 12:20PM AngryPirate wrote: A reply of mine was blocked for typing a phrase in speech marks but when I removed them, my reply went through. Click to expand It just happened again for me. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 26 2019 : 7:49PM A "phrase in speach" marks [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 26 2019 : 7:50PM or is it a "typing a phrase in speech marks" I suppose I don't know what marks you're using. What keyboard type are you using? US? non-US? [Link]
AngryPirate Senior Member 3210 Posts 8/17	Posted - Jan 27 2019 : 1:50AM Non-US. On this topic https://forum.adultdvdtalk.com/no-tube-site-links-for-id-questions/reply/3467752 I typed (without using the code tag): "Can somebody tell me her name please?"[/code] But the reply was blocked so I used italics instead. Edited by - AngryPirate on 1/27/2019 1:50:51 AM [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 27 2019 : 2:39AM Could you try again? I made a change to the page that accepts new posts. [Link]
AngryPirate Senior Member 3210 Posts 8/17	Posted - Jan 27 2019 : 4:17AM Thanks Drew. That seemed to work. I could use speech marks without having to embed them in a [code][/code] tag and the post was accepted. [Link]

AngryPirate Senior Member 3210 Posts 8/17	Posted - Jan 29 2019 : 2:42AM ^ OK, one of my posts using speech marks was blocked again. [Link]
grover All-Star Member Literotica.com - grover10 16888 Posts 11/04	Posted - Apr 6 2019 : 4:52PM ^ I just received the error message not 20 seconds ago. I removed the quotation marks and all is fine. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Apr 23 2019 : 8:21AM I realize some members might be getting blocked this morning. I had to tighten up our rules. We're under active attack this morning by a bot army. I banned a user that was complaining about free speech and the (lack of) democracy on this site and the attack started an hour later. [Link]
Jman5245 All-Star Member flickr.com/jman5245 5764 Posts 5/09	Posted - Apr 26 2019 : 12:13PM Hey Drew, When I type adultdvdtalk.com in to my address bar it gives me the following message: Server Error 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied. Click to expand I haven't been on the site for the last three days because of this! Finally, I remembered to type the direct address to the forum - forum.adultdvdtalk.com - and it worked. So something is still going on FYI. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Apr 26 2019 : 4:15PM You should be redirected to https://www.adultdvdtalk.com if you just enter adultdvdtalk.com in your browser's address bar. What browser are you using? [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Apr 26 2019 : 4:31PM Jman5245 wrote: Hey Drew, When I type adultdvdtalk.com in to my address bar it gives me the following message: Click to expand This is fixed. Thanks for letting me know. It wasn't the WAF causing the problem. It was a DNS error. After the bot army fiasco the other day I moved some other pieces of ADT behind the proxy server and screwed up some of the settings. [Link]
matchmaker Senior Member 24909 Posts 4/05	Posted - Jun 16 2019 : 3:06PM I've been starting to see the StackPath screen again (from about yesterday), but it just says to key in letters & numbers to confirm I'm not a robot. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 16 2019 : 5:01PM ^You have a PM regarding this situation. I hope it's temporary. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 16 2019 : 5:07PM For anyone that's getting blocked, you can email me at drew@adultdvdtalk.com and include the reference ID on the "You've been Blocked" Stackpath page. That will allow me to lookup what WAF rule you triggered and see if there's anything I can do to tune the rule a bit. I enabled a half-dozen new rules recently and the WAF is establishing a new baseline for what types of user behavior patters are normal and which appear to be malicious or automated. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 16 2019 : 5:13PM If you get the Captcha challenge screen it's a little hard to see the area you enter the text on some screens. It looks like this: Enter the bold characters in the text field and you shouldn't see the challenge again for a while. [Link]

Mass Facialties Deactivated User "Facialized Vol. 7" 2021 AVN Awards Winner: Best Oral Movie 9308 Posts 9/13	Posted - Jun 16 2019 : 11:56PM ^ Uh, I've actually had to do it every time I log in for the past three days now. [Link]
Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02	Posted - Jun 17 2019 : 6:44PM I appreciate that you want to stop spammers and the like, Drew, but getting repeatedly challenged when I move around the forums becomes rather annoying. Is it not possible to stay in Stackpath's "good graces"? [Link]
AngryPirate Senior Member 3210 Posts 8/17	Posted - Jun 17 2019 : 10:21PM I think it's a little overzealous. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 17 2019 : 10:39PM It's going to need to be like this until the weekend. Sorry, it's a pain in the ass but it's preventing much larger, very real problems at the moment. [Link]
Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02	Posted - Jun 18 2019 : 1:26AM Okay, thanks for the reply. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 18 2019 : 6:02AM I sent you a PM with more details. [Link]
upsux Deactivated User 919 Posts 10/17	Posted - Jun 19 2019 : 8:52PM Hardware wrote: I appreciate that you want to stop spammers and the like, Drew, but getting repeatedly challenged when I move around the forums becomes rather annoying. Is it not possible to stay in Stackpath's "good graces"? Click to expand +1 If it's for the greater good then so be it, but I get it nearly everytime I open a tab or refresh the 'my topic' page after being AFK. [Link]
joi Deactivated User 396 Posts 6/17	Posted - Jun 20 2019 : 3:25AM getting blocked or captcha every minute. seriously google recaptcha and stackpath are two of the most annoying things created by man. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 20 2019 : 5:47PM If you get the challenge you can email me the reference number on the "You have been blocked" page and I can investigate which rule blocked you. drew @ adt If your browser doesn't accept session cookies, or if you're using a VPN/Proxy/Anonymizer service then you're going to have a very difficult time using ADT. The StackPath WAF has thwarted 2 very determined attacks recently. A well-known abusive user came back and made all kinds of threats so I had to ratchet up the rules to prevent a lot of stuff that we were otherwise allowing previously. Edited by - Drew Black on 6/20/2019 5:48:53 PM [Link]
joi Deactivated User 396 Posts 6/17	Posted - Jun 21 2019 : 6:44PM seems to be working fine now. i will mail you next time it happens. i couldnt browse for almost 2 days. almost everytime i refreshed a page it resulted in captcha and sometimes in a block. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 21 2019 : 8:05PM ^That's good news. I have relaxed some of the rules I enabled a week ago . We'll see if that was a bad idea soon enough I suppose. [Link]
Porn Scout Deactivated User 3735 Posts 10/02	Posted - Sep 13 2019 : 7:28PM I was just blocked. I was trying to post some images to the Natalia Queen thread. I only rarely post images so this was a surprise. [Link]
snufish Member 580 Posts 4/14	Posted - Jul 23 2020 : 12:26AM Everything seems ok now, I haven't been blocked for months, switching via multiple devices. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jul 24 2020 : 8:19AM That's good to know. Thanks for the update. [Link]

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