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CAPTCHA: Bot vs. Human. Bot wins. (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/mildlyinteresting

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.12108.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 8 points 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.

[–] inspxtr 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.