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Your guess is wrong. This isn't a custom version of google. It's just a regular akamai reverse proxy setup. > Either it is for agents in the field to inconspic
by FDSGSG 7y ago
Your guess is wrong. This isn't a custom version of google. It's just a regular akamai reverse proxy setup.
> Either it is for agents in the field to inconspicuously use google
By visiting a nsa.gov subdomain served by akamai? Yeah right. I feel like heading to www.google.com would be far less conspicuous.
- captainmuon 7y agoYou can do that? I would expect Google to flag connections to the search page that don't terminate on a residential/commercial IP as suspicious and show you the near "unsolvable" captcha. At least that is my experience with proxying google services (e.g. silly setup for accessing them from China). Datacenter IPs or SSL "MitM" connections reliably trigger it.
- FDSGSG 7y agoDepends very much on which datacenter you're using. I'd imagine google doesn't get much (any) bot traffic from Akamai, so I'm not surprised that their ranges aren't flagged yet.
- jjeaff 7y agoBut all it takes is a few dozen queries in fast succession and google will start showing a captcha. At least, that is how it seemed to be a few years ago.
- VectorLock 7y agoI'd love to know what the distribution of tries on the "unsolvable" captcha is when served to real people operating in good faith.
- penagwin 7y agoAnecdotal, and I'm guessing it's because I was logged in (to my long standing personal Google account) - but I didn't have any issues when I was VPN'd through a Vultr vps of mine when I was in my dorm. Again I'm guessing it's because I was logged in, from google chrome.