Google "Unaddressed Abuse Complaints"

[p9974839 2]

I started getting this page while googling about 5 months ago. Started happening on and off however now it's happening every time I use Google but only with my Air VPN on. Not sure if it's happening with all VPN's or just Air.

[ss11 15]

It's happening with all VPN's, Tor exit nodes and all IP addresses that are shared by thousands of people and there is no real way to fix it for now except doing these captchas. Sorry, but it's how it is. For me personally it's not a huge price to pay for the privacy / lack of tracking I get.

[Staff 9972]

Hello!

Google Search should never be used for privacy reasons (Google profiling techniques are so advanced that you risk to create a correlation between your real identity and your VPN identity at the tiniest error) and ethical reasons, but you can rely on startpage.com if you really need Google Search. Startpage will proxy your queries to Google Search and serve you back Google reply, therefore an additional protection layer stands between your node and Google and you usually avoid captchas. A very good search engine offering privacy protection commitment is Brave Search:
https://search.brave.com

Kind regards
 

[dIecbasC 38]

I’m also liking https://kagi.com
its premium but gets excellent results and straight to what I’m looking for with no ad’s. 

[p9974839 2]

ss11

• Advanced Member wrote:

It's happening with all VPN's, Tor exit nodes and all IP addresses that are shared by thousands of people and there is no real way to fix it for now except doing these captchas. Sorry, but it's how it is. For me personally it's not a huge price to pay for the privacy / lack of tracking I get.

 It's a big deal to me. There are times when I have to go through multiple "Click on the squares" captcha's just for one google search.

[Staff 9972]

@p9974839

Google Search should never be used, but if you really want it, why not just use https://startpage.com ?

Kind regards
 

[MarxBrother 2]

On 12/11/2023 at 2:09 AM, p9974839 said:

ss11

• Advanced Member wrote:

There are times when I have to go through multiple "Click on the squares" captcha's just for one google search.

 

Though I click correctly, always the next picture comes up to be solved. I found out that it is best to click on the headphones and to type what the voice says. That works instantly,

Kind regards

[claverm 0]

@p9974839

I recommend this metasearch engine: https://4get.ca/ | http://4getwebfrq5zr4sxugk6htxvawqehxtdgjrbcn2oslllcol2vepa23yd.onion/

IMO the best metasearch engine in the web, and yes, it has a Google scrapper together with some others.

 

[organicchocolate 1]

On 11/7/2023 at 12:34 AM, Staff said:

would u extrapolate you warning on google to all alphabet products like youtube?

(for an update, starting about february 2024 i no longer can access google with vpn on, nothing works/returns. starting march 12ish on youtube click an image/icon i'm getting getting "you don't seem to be connected retry" in the video box. sometimes i'm getting the entire normal youtube individual channel and nothing plays, repeated refresh nothing... so i'm guessing alphabet my soon ban vpn on youtube too!

Hello!

Google Search should never be used for privacy reasons (Google profiling techniques are so advanced that you risk to create a correlation between your real identity and your VPN identity at the tiniest error) and ethical reasons, but you can rely on startpage.com if you really need Google Search. Startpage will proxy your queries to Google Search and serve you back Google reply, therefore an additional protection layer stands between your node and Google and you usually avoid captchas. A very good search engine offering privacy protection commitment is Brave Search:
https://search.brave.com

Kind regards
 

[monstrocity 31]

There are many ways to access YouTube using a VPN:
Freetube app (Windows, Linux, Mac) https://freetubeapp.io/
In browser - Piped     https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances  
                - invidious      https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
Android - NewPipe     https://newpipe.net/
             - Youtube ReVanced      https://revanced.app/
           (be careful searching for ReVanced - lots of fake websites)
iOS - uYouPlus    https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus 

Google? Tons of alternatives for search. Who needs it? 
For simple translations, DeepL blows it away. https://www.deepl.com/translator
*DeepL has a free version but it's limited, closed source, and subscription based, most everything else mentioned above is F(L)OSS.