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I started to use Bing quite a lot lately. For a very simple reason - I use Tor browser a lot, Google blocks it and constantly shows me ugly captchas (not even
by runn1ng 12y ago
I started to use Bing quite a lot lately.
For a very simple reason - I use Tor browser a lot, Google blocks it and constantly shows me ugly captchas (not even ReCaptcha) and sometimes blocks me entirely, Bing just works. (Startpage - which is a Google skin basically - shows captchas too, and doesn't even redirect me to the actual search after the captcha. DuckDuckGo has unusable results.)
So I am using a Microsoft service to be more anonymous. Which is kind of funny.
- andyrj 12y agoIt isn't just the tor browser bundle that causes this. I believe it has more to do with either bots using tor to access google or google forcing captcha on access from known tor exit nodes. I have seen the same behaviour from vanilla firefox while trying to use google from tor. I would still rather input captcha than use bing!
- runn1ng 12y ago> I believe it has more to do with either bots using tor to access google or google forcing captcha on access from known tor exit nodes. Yes of course, but I don't care. I want to search while using Tor. > I would still rather input captcha than use bing! Google uses really, really terrible captchas for this. Usually more in a row, with no indication if you did the previous one right or not. And sometimes they just refuse to show the results, period.