• TrustingZebra@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Yep when using a VPN I get way more captchas on Google web searches (regardless of browser).

    It makes it really annoying to search on Google, to the point I want to turn off my VPN or use other search engines.

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      1 year ago

      It’s also likely that it is because they are seeing a large number of searches from one IP (the VPN exit server), and that can look like bots.

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      1 year ago

      For search engines, I’ve never used it but there’s whoogle that’s supposed to be proxy for google search.

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        1 year ago

        Here’s the thing about all search engines that aren’t Google (including the ones “based” on Google results). They all suck for regional results in many non-Latin languages.