Hi, I run Firefox 81.0(64-bit) with Ubuntu 18.04.5 on my new home-built computer with MSI B450 Tomahawk Max MB so have the newest updates on most software.

My question is:

How do I get rid of this CAPTCHA thing attached . Recently it shows up every time I open Firefox and is very annoying. I’ve tried several ‘blocklist’ apps from Firefox but they don’t work. I have a Dell Latitude E6510 Laptop with Ubuntu 18.04.5 with Firefox 81.0(64-bit) and it DOES NOT do this. I've looked in the settings and can't find the website.

The URL is http://omblockedips.com/?honeypot&params= a zillion numbers and has to do
with, I think, Google spying stuff. Honeypot is right!

Thanks in advance for your help in getting rid of this thing.

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It has nothing to do with Google spying. Your Firefox is trying to open that URL for some reason. Close the window/tab/ and it should be gone. Firefox can be set to reload previous tabs, everything that was open when it was closed, but that setting can be changed. You should be able to get rid of that captcha by simply closing the tab, without changing any other settings.

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Exactly - captcha's are meant to prevent bots from accessing sites.

You definitely shouldn't be getting this.
Is that the URL that opens when you open the browser?
Frankly, it looks like your FF has been pwned.
Try starting with a new profile, does that help?
Or maybe just change the home page.

Thanks people!

After two days CAPTCHA disappeared.

What's a 'bot'.

Now I have a message that says I have a system problem do I want to send it. I do send it but is there any way to find out what the problem is. It used to tell you.

Thanks, R

Hi, from wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot

can you post the message about the system problem? It might be perfectly legit but these days my default is scepticism

Thanks for the bot info.

The message for the system problem simply says that there is a system error and do you want to report it. It seems to me these boxes used to have a button that, if pressed, would show what the problem was in summary. At least a hint.

I have been poking around the internet and my computer log files and it may have something to do with run/systemd/resolve and run/resolvconf/resolv.conf which contains info about nameserver and possible conflicts there.

I don't know anything about this. It doesn't do me a bit of good to send this message to whoever since it doesn't solve anything for me. I would really not want to re-install Ubuntu 18.04 again and go through the tedium of installing my software again.

This sounds like classical social engineering tactics to get you to click some malware link - although it could aslo be legitimate.
Screenshot please.
Did you do what I proposed in my previous post?