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		ddalex on Jan 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Off-Facebook activity reCAPTCHA is a Google product, but the owner site needs to actually integrate it, so it's a conscientious decision

saghm on Jan 30, 2020 [–]

I might not have been clear; sometimes when using a VPN, you can't even load Google search results until you submit a captcha. If you go to "google.com", it will make you enter a captcha before you can search anything.

ddalex on Jan 30, 2020 | [–]

Ah that's fair, Google captchas VPN users, but I don't think it's recaptcha, it doesn't look exactly the same.

Having done this in a previous life, they do this because they fight against scrapping their search results.

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