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Niantic asked me if I was a robot

Few minutes ago a white box with a big magnemite on top appeared on my screen, asking if I'm a robot. After that I had to click on all the pictures with a house. Those standard robot questionaries like when you've typed in your pw wrong too many times.
After that my gps and sigtings were gone and then again 2-3mins later the same "are you a robot" question following numerous pictures popped up. My gps and sightings then again started erroring...

Has anyone else gotten this? Cause I've never gps spoofed or used any IV app or something like that! So just wondering if this is just a standard procedure or if this is because of my sometimes drifting gps...

This was in the middle of my first lure plant in months, missed half of it god dangit! ?

Asked by Retardless8 years 2 months ago
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It has something to do with GPS error whether by jumping locations or drifting too far and then suddenly running back to your spot. It's because of the anti-location spoofing guard of Pokémon Go. Get that wrong by a set number of times and you'll get banned. That's how most scanners work. That's why they implemented the captcha.

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That's perfectly normal and also it happens to people who aren't cheating in any way. The most likely explanation is that your GPS was somehow fooling around and the game checks if you are a bot or not. No need to worry about that at all however, you can continue playing normally.

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by K634 8 years 3 months ago

Standard procedure lately, to help block bot usage and accounts for radar apps. It may happen at random from time to time. When I fall asleep and leave PGo open, I have to answer those as well...

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by cyana 8 years 3 months ago

Seems my iphone7 has a quite erratic gps so i run into this robot prevention from time to time. besides being annoying it's totally harmless.

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You could get banned if the message pops up more than 3 times in a 24hr period.

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Really? Where did you get this information? If one happens to solve the captcha, the counter resets? I'm sure that after a set number of unsolved captchas, the account is banned. This is just the first time I've seen one attach a number.

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Though it can't stop AIs.

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I constantly get this when I leave my phone plugged in at home for some reason. When I'm actually out and about I don't.

I think it's less likely to happen if you do get GPS drift, because then the game thinks you're an actual player since you're moving (or at least your avatar is). If you just stay in one spot for half an hour doing nothing, that's similar activity to an account that's just made for tracking.

Strangely enough my dad plays Pokemon Go and he gets really strong GPS drift, and doesn't get the captcha, although that's not conclusive, we do use different phones and are on different networks.

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by Fetila 8 years 3 months ago

I got checked twice after I used IV app. Had no idea they are somewhat not "allowed"

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