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ranger_dangeryesterday at 10:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

Ever since I started getting captcha prompts on DDG I had to stop using it (same for google).

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ruralfamtoday at 1:35 AM

I get so frustrated with the damn "are you a human" checks for Google search. My default search tool from Brave. I had gotten in the habit of searching quickly for something while reading a web page, etc. Worked find for years. Now some days I get results directly. Many days, though, I am getting 2-3-4 prompts. Getting pretty used to jumping over to Edge to do my searches now. On Starlink in a rural spot. Not sure why Google has flagged me. Do not care I guess. Should probably set my Brave default to Bing, but I do find Google's AI summaries helpful. Just not enough to do a bunch of "find the bicycle" "find the bus" "find the traffic light" captchas. One less Google search customer is not a concern of theirs methinks.

yeggtoday at 12:03 AM

Human traffic really shouldn't be seeing that -- if you want to email me I can try to sort it out to improve our systems.

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