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Google presents captcha while searching while on VPN #361

Closed h5chauhan closed 7 years ago

h5chauhan commented 7 years ago

OS / Environment

Digital ocean

Ansible version

ansible 2.2.0.0

Version of components from requirements.txt

adal==0.4.5
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azure==2.0.0rc5
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azure-mgmt-commerce==0.30.0rc5
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azure-mgmt-nspkg==1.0.0
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six==1.10.0

Summary of the problem

Google always thinks I am a bot while using vpn. Is there a way to fix this or work around it.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

  1. Connect to algo vpn
  2. Enter a search string in chrome and hit enter (google prompts for captcha

The way of deployment (cloud or local)

Cloud

Expected behavior

Google should not think of my user agent as bot.

Actual behavior

Google considers my UA a bot and presents captcha

Full log

dguido commented 7 years ago

Redeploy on a different IP or solve the captcha and continue browsing.

GeYebo commented 7 years ago

Out of curiousity, what is it about the vpn that leads google to think that the UA is a bot?

dguido commented 7 years ago

That's covered in the troubleshooting doc

GeYebo commented 7 years ago

Got it. Thanks.