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Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!
Posted on 10/22/2025 6:26:43 AM PDT by LouAvul
I own four computers. Two desktops. One laptop. One Microsoft notebook.
Three have Win 11. One has 10.
Lately, on a desktop w/11, frequently, when I'm searching google for data, when I type in the phrase or business or topic, I'll get a captcha test. It's becoming more frequent.
I always clear my cache, run ccleaner, clear history, etc. It's still happening. And none of my other computers are doing it.
When it happens, it starts with the "I'm not a robot" box which I check. Directly underneath it has some computer lingo with the word "google" in it. And as soon as I check the box, the captcha image appears.
Is this common? Can it be disabled?
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Exactly with Brave as my browser.
Brave is my browser as well, though I use Firefox as an alternate when the site requires pop-ups that Brave blocks.
Yup. Curious that only one of his machines is doing that, however.
Stop using Google search and replace with DuckDuckGo. If this resolves the problem, you’ll know Google search is the problem and not your Win10 or 11 Operating System.
Brave Search wants to verify I’m a human too.
Step one: switch your browser to Brave and its search engine. Google is evil. I doubt brave is conservative but they seem almost neutral
Ironic how you ask for computer advice, and you get a bunch of lectures of the danger of google. sigh...
With that said, if you are on a VPN, or some network or device that uses a dynamic IP or mac address, its common to be asked to verify that you are human. It’s the same as if you were consistently using a browser in ‘incognito’ mode.
Of it could be you have your system set NOT to save cookies. These are just some of the factors that maybe affecting your system(s).
If you listen to the smarter among us on this thread, you may notice you may the same issue on other browsers. This is due to your network (local and/or remote), and not who’s spying on you. Speaking of which: Do you have an apple or android smart phone? If so, there’s no need spying on your searches, since more data about you can and will be collected from your phone that anything you can ‘google’ on your laptop.
Full disclosure: I’m one of the dumb ones with over 25 years in software development, working with computers and networks for over 30 years.
just my $0.02.
Is your computer on?
Ha - I tried telling some coworkers about Google
17 years ago - they just rolled their eyes 👀
because “black helicopters” you know...
They were TOO SMART 🤓 for any of THAT stuff...😄🤣🤣
Then one of them read on in the news article they
were looking at...DUH
It’s truly amazing just how clueless and dumb the
public are to everything going on - I have not yet
met A SINGLE PERSON who knew anything about Biden’s
Executive Order 14067 and they almost ALL get a glazed
look in their eyes when you tell them about programmable
CBDC coming to most major nations
Because Joe Biden is just a kindly old man, doddering fool,
but he means well. He’s just confused...and doesn’t
actually know what he’s doing....but he means well...
Which causes me to...🙄🙄🙄
BTW that was the same year that black helicopters DID
suddenly appearing in Denver, landing on rooftops,
and in grocery store parking lots 🅿️ in Denver
Just prior to the DNC convention...
It was almost like someone or something was
being INSTALLED
They guy who reported on it reported on
something else and then pretended that he
DIDN’T SAY WHAT HE SAID even after being
played a recording of his own broadcast
Nothing 😑 ODD about that at all ... not one bit
I agree but the results are just as left leaning in Brave.
Try doing a “Did Russia Help Trump Win in 2016” and see what you get.
I used the Duck for a while but it never gave current up to date info on searches.
Mentioning that Google hates us and we should avoid using them to the extent possible is very different from “lecturing on the dangers of Google”.
Just for the record.
And most thinking people understand they’re carrying around a tracking device. In particular, the 20-30 million lines of J6 phone meta data the Feebs obtained should be a wake up for anyone not aware, for a current example.
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Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!
Yeah Brave is only marginally better than google’s search results but they don’t seem to be part of “the cause” like google is. Unfortunately there is no viable conservative browser/search engine that l know of. The creator of Mozilla/Firefox seems to be a good guy but he hasn’t had anything to do with the browser for many years.
I’ve found a “verifying you’re human” popup intermittently when I do a short series of Brave searches.
Switch to Firefox browser or similar, use DuckDuckgo as your search engine. Don’t use Google for anything unless it’s a last resort. All those problems should disappear.
I sometimes use the Brave browser. When queries to its default search (and Leo) are sent too rapidly, it does indeed pop up a time-consuming captcha.
My solution has been to use a different (DDG) browser or clear the Brave browser history.
I love Brave, and have it on two Win 10 devices. However, it no longer works on my two Win 7 systems. 🫤
As a test of bias, try to Google the single most substantive Internet collection of CDC stats I know of on "Negative effects of homosexual relations (also heterosexual fornication). Searching the term In quotes, or even without quotes.
Then try it (in quotes( on Bing, and DDG, and Blaze, and Yandex.
As well as without quotes. Bing will list it at top, as will Brave, and DDG, and Yandex will show it as a FR posted article.
Thank God for that, but Google shadow bans it even though blooger.com is hosted by them. As a test of bias, I think this is rather revealing.
However, I heard s of a new SE: https://tusksearch.com/ and which passed my basic bias test. Thank God.
DDG or AI guy for me.
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