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How can I find out if a website is injecting adware when the "checking your browser-wait 5 seconds" interstitial page is shown? Exactly what goes on in the background during this "test"? I know a cookie is placed on my PC because if I clear my history after gaining access to the site, the 5 second page pops up again if I click on anything else on the page.

Is there a way to decode the cookie into plain English?

schroeder
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Brion Lawrence
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I guess you can check by checking what ads you see? But it is unlikely you would get adware this way.

What is actually happening is cloudflare is verifying you are not a bot (program designed to spam, DOS or otherwise attack the site). Once the verification is done, they give you a cookie that is a proof you are not a bot. If you delete the cookie, cloudflare needs to verify again.

More info here and here.

Peter Harmann
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