Very annoying captcha requests <<--- Is this normal?

rezpower · Dec 15, 2024

I have been using google from it's beginning and I have never had it ask me to solve a captcha when making a search. This happens to me very often if I use a VPN but NEVER before it has happened on my own home IP. For the last few days I am getting the captcha page at almost every search I do on google and sometimes I have to endlessly solve the captchas! This is very annoying, but even more important to me is to know why this is happening. Could there be a security problem on my side? Why is google suddenly behaving this way on my PC?

I checked and the ip google is showing here is my personal home IP from Bouygues Telecom (My provider) in France.

OAT · Dec 15, 2024

rezpower said:
I have been using google from it's beginning and I have never had it ask me to solve a captcha when making a search. This happens to me very often if I use a VPN but NEVER before it has happened on my own home IP. For the last few days I am getting the captcha page at almost every search I do on google and sometimes I have to endlessly solve the captchas! This is very annoying, but even more important to me is to know why this is happening. Could there be a security problem on my side? Why is google suddenly behaving this way on my PC?

I checked and the ip google is showing here is my personal home IP from Bouygues Telecom (My provider) in France.

@rezpower ,
Your VPN provider IPs have probably been flagged as being used by bots.
This in turn may have been linked to your Bouygues IP address through a WebRTC leak resulting in the issue you now have with Google Search. You should contact your VPN service provider.

Kees · Dec 15, 2024

My IP-6 adress changes every time I restart the router that connects me to my provider via a glassviber modem.
I think the first 4 groups of the adress stay the same, but the last 2 groups change every time.

If that is the case in your situation too, then it might be that the last time your router had a restart, you got an IP-6 adress that was formerly used by someone who is 'misusing' the Internet in a way that Google does not like. Now you have that adress and Google considers you as being that user. In that case it would be worthwhile to restart the router once again to know if that would help.

You could note the IP adress from one of the many IP-6 Tests that are on the Internet, simply to find by a search action "IP-6 test".
Note it before the restart and afterwards.

Ghot · Dec 15, 2024

@rezpower

Ya just had to search for "Monopoly" didn't ya?

rezpower · Dec 15, 2024

Thanks for replying guys. I was afraid I had a malware or a security problem on my PC. Even if my ip is kind of linked with a problematic one by google , it still is not good news

Kees · Dec 15, 2024

Did you indeed restart your router (after noting the IP-6 adress)?
Did it help?

Or is it not possible to restart the router (for instance because more users are connected to the Internet by that device)?

rezpower · Dec 15, 2024

Kees said:
Did you indeed restart your router (after noting the IP-6 adress)?
Did it help?

Or is it not possible to restart the router (for instance because more users are connected to the Internet by that device)?

I tried few times and I can conform that after each Router reboot last part of my IP-6 changes. I was still getting the captchas after first IP change.
But after another router reboot I am not getting them anymore. At least for now

Kees · Dec 16, 2024

rezpower said:
But after another router reboot I am not getting them anymore. At least for now

Thanks for the feedback!

colinp · Dec 18, 2024

Ghot said:
@rezpower

Ya just had to search for "Monopoly" didn't ya?

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rezpower · Dec 18, 2024

btw captchas are back and I believe that it has nothing to do with my network or IP , as I have a clean, portable version of firefox and when I search google with it, it does not give me the captchas. while my main firefox is asking me to solve captchas very often,

neemobeer · Dec 18, 2024

This has nothing to do with your IP being flagged as bad. Google does do anomaly detection of incoming connections. This happens solely due to the change in your connection characteristics (mainly geographic location and IP changing) in cybersecurity terms this is often called "impossible travel"

rezpower · Dec 18, 2024

neemobeer said:
This has nothing to do with your IP being flagged as bad. Google does do anomaly detection of incoming connections. This happens solely do to the change in your connection characteristics (mainly geographic location and IP changing) in cybersecurity terms this is often called "impossible travel"

You are probably right! It may have something to do with my location as:
Here is a screenshot of the lower page from my main firefox browser: (The one I am having this problem with)

I don't know why, but as you see google can't determine my location (Which is not a bad thing if it didn't go crazy with captchas! )

And here is the screen shot from my portable test firefox (I don't get captchas with it) :

As you can see my location is known by google in the second browser!

OAT · Dec 18, 2024

rezpower said:
You are probably right! It may have something to do with my location...

I doubt it as I don't get the captcha.
And I use 2 versions of Edge, 1 of Chrome and 2 of Firefox.

neemobeer · Dec 18, 2024

Resolve Google Search’s "Unusual traffic from your computer network" message - Google Search Help

If a network you use, including VPN networks, seems to be sending automated traffic to Google Search, you might get the message “Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network.”

support.google.com

rezpower · Dec 18, 2024

OAT said:
I doubt it as I don't get the captcha.
And I use 2 versions of Edge, 1 of Chrome and 2 of Firefox.

View attachment 119718

Thanks. I have location service always disabled in windows. So I don't understand why one of the browsers determines my location and why the other one does not!

OAT · Dec 18, 2024

rezpower said:
Thanks. I have location service always disabled in windows. So I don't understand why one of the browsers determines my location and why the other one does not!

Go here to find out:
Use the several options from the pull-down menu.

What is my Geolocation

This page shows your geolocation data; this data is derived from <code>navigator.geolocation</code> JavaScript API. There are six methods designed to extract geodata from javascript engine.

webbrowsertools.com

Almighty1 · Dec 20, 2024

If you search too fast without a pause long enough, you will also get the captcha.

rezpower · Dec 23, 2024

Finally I was able to fix this problem by removing all cookies and cache from firefox. No more captchas for the last 2 days :)

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