[tor-talk] Tor and Google error / CAPTCHAs.

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It's still not clear at this point what their motivations are. Also the FAQ should be changed to reflect this: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#GoogleCAPTCHA Specifically this part "To our knowledge, Google is not doing anything intentionally specificallyto deter or block Tor use."

21. Jan 2017 13:16 by hikki at Safe-mail.net:


> https://duckduckgo.com>  has become increasingly better lately. Only during 
> the past 6 months or so, their search results have become almost on par 
> with the big ones, like Google, Bing, etc.
>
> In regards to Google, it all comes down to censorship and anti-privacy. 
> Just like Microsoft and Windows 10 which now has a publicly known 
> back-door, which you agree to in the ToS, enabling them to search through 
> your whole computer at any given time and place. God bless Linux!
>
> These are the two biggest companies, within online searching and OS, 
> practicing pro censorship and anti-privacy. And it all make sense from a 
> governmental/police point of view.
>
> Simply avoid them!
>
>> Of course they have no problem with tor, because tor
>> is not really a problem for such big infrastructures, and
>> it's simple search, which is not a big deal. It's evil google
>> that has the problem. And censors, causing you to miss
>> relavant original subthreads...
>>
>> https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2017-January/035081.html
>> https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2017-January/035121.html
>>
>> Might not care about a single captcha, if it were shown
>> to be somehow dos or monetarily needed in an open
>> public presentation. But EvilG hasn't done that. They're
>> not single, solved ones don't persist to grant future access
>> even though they set many cookies. doesn't happen over
>> clearnet, and so on. Google just plain sucks on this and
>> the SMS creation issue.
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