Google doesnt like Firefox on Freebsd 15 ?

drsnx60

drsnx60

Google search dialogue has the last month ask to confirm: " Im not a robot" with a chapta session , when Im using firefox on freebsd 15.
does not happend when using Firefox on Windows 11.
Im using Strict security settings in Firefox , but even if they are relaxed i get the same situation. Google wants me to prove Im not a robot, before allowing me to search for anything.

Is this common ?

is there a solution ?

Regards
 
drsnx60 said:
Google search dialogue has the last month ask to confirm: " Im not a robot" with a chapta session , when Im using firefox on freebsd 15.
does not happend when using Firefox on Windows 11.
Im using Strict security settings in Firefox , but even if they are relaxed i get the same situation. Google wants me to prove Im not a robot, before allowing me to search for anything.

Is this common ?

is there a solution ?

Regards
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Maybe use "user agent" Change identity browser and OS ?
 
I just tested on a FreeBSD-15.0-ALPHA4 and like Useradd didn't get a request to prove I'm human. Also tried on 14.3-RELEASE-p3, same result, no request to prove I'm human. It might be worth renaming your $HOME/.mozilla to something else, or creating a test user and seeing if the problem persists.
 
If you're any kind of user agent switcher on Firefox, try stopping it (or switch to Firefox on FreeBSD).
Not CHAPTA, but Anubis on Gnome page clearly "HATE" mimic'ed browser, at least mimicing Firefox on FreeBSD to Chrome on Windows avoid accessing there. If same kind of mis-guessing is happening, it could have just a bit of hope.
 
What's annoying is that some pages restrict browser and need mimicing supported ones.

I strongly want such a behavior (unless "your browser doesn't seem to have required extension!" happenes) to be prohibited by law, national, regional and international and force supporting standardized HTML versions as sane, regardless the browser.

And also prohibit any plugins/extensions to block underlying OS, depending purely on the browser the plugin/extention is programmed for should be mandated by law. Standardizations, standardizatins and standardization!
 
drsnx60 said:
Is this common ?
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I had it happen maybe once a month (Firefox, clear cookies on exit, uBlock, etc), but haven't seen in in a while. When it happened I just switched to DDG for a bit :p (Google usually stops the captcha within a few days or by the time I reinstall and FF-default back to Google)
 
Espionage724 said:
I had it happen maybe once a month (Firefox, clear cookies on exit, uBlock, etc), but haven't seen in in a while. When it happened I just switched to DDG for a bit :p (Google usually stops the captcha within a few days or by the time I reinstall and FF-default back to Google)
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Similar. It used to happen to me as well, and when it did, it was annoying af. Can't remember exactly when that was nor on which versions, but since I ditched FF for Brave on all OSes I use never had something like that again.
 
drsnx60 said:
does not happend when using Firefox on Windows 11.
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It does at $DAYJOB. Probably because they get a lot of search requests originating from the same IP (the web gateway proxy at $DAYJOB). We regularly get locked out too.
 
SirDice said:
It does at $DAYJOB. Probably because they get a lot of search requests originating from the same IP (the web gateway proxy at $DAYJOB). We regularly get locked out too.
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Uh, if so, and the connection is via IPv4, I cannot understand why Google thought it can work as intended. As, maybe many of ISPs are using CG-NAT for IPv4, thus, many different customers (would be mostly personal users) on different house/room shares single global IPv4 address.

For example, although my old contract assures single dedicated global IPv4 address (differs on reconnect, assigned address pool they have), one of the ISP I'm contracting state newer and faster contracts for regular personal users use CG-NAT and assign local IP address (I don't know which class it is) for each customers.
 
T-Aoki said:
Uh, if so, and the connection is via IPv4, I cannot understand why Google thought it can work as intended. As, maybe many of ISPs are using CG-NAT for IPv4, thus, many different customers (would be mostly personal users) on different house/room shares single global IPv4 address.
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$DAYJOB constantly deleting cookies and whatnot on the desktop systems probably doesn't help either.
 
I did explicitly allow Google to keep Cookies in the browser settings , did not seem to change anything.
The firewall of course hides the internal address of the desktop computer.
Issue vanished temporarily for a few days , but has now returned again. so maybe the network facing IP is blacklisted @ Google.
 
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