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No, they do a pretty good job at getting around it. I only run into issues with Brave/Startpage, Google/DuckDuckGo/Wikipedia all work fine. And when you're fusi
by alethic 2mo ago
No, they do a pretty good job at getting around it. I only run into issues with Brave/Startpage, Google/DuckDuckGo/Wikipedia all work fine. And when you're fusing together multiple sources getting CAPTCHA'd is not actually a big issue, it's more so a thing to fix later.
I would say also -- if search engines are making you do CAPTCHAs every few searches, this is probably an issue with your exit node. I notice a sizable increase in CAPTCHA barriers when I'm on my VPN (most annoyingly Google/YouTube, which sometimes will serve you an infinite number of CAPTCHAs w/o letting you through).
By contrast, my SearXNG instance is making ~100 searches a day from a known good IP address (being my VPS), so rate limiting is less of a problem. You can also set up API keys for many search engines.
- snailmailman 2mo agoI wish it was a problem with my vpn/exit node. But I get these captchas when I’m not on a VPN. I assume it’s just because I don’t login to Google and I enable tracking prevention stuff in Firefox? But that’s really only on my desktop. I get them on my iphone too which is vanilla iOS safari. I get captchas and the cloudflare checkboxes extremely frequently, and sometimes cannot get past them at all. I saw the articles about residential proxies on TVs recently and honestly have been worried something like that was the cause, but I’ve kept an eye on my network traffic and I don’t notice anything suspicious. Pretty sure I’m not part of a botnet or proxy or anything; but maybe other nearby IPs are. Maybe I’ll give SearxNG a try. Searching is bad enough as it is, it can’t make it too much worse.