• @TrustingZebra
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    1611 months 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.

    • @Chreutz@lemmy.world
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      811 months 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.

    • @inspxtr@lemmy.world
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      211 months ago

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

      • @TrustingZebra
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        211 months 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.