costa
October 14, 2020, 3:41pm
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Hey Brave community!
I have been using Brave for a long time (>1.5 year) and recently Google is blocking me at least twice per day and wants me to validate that I am not a bot. Is this happening to anyone else? If so how do you recommend solving this?
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sometime it happen to me if i used proxy/vpn
but can not say what is the pattern that happening on it as it rarely happen for me
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costa
October 14, 2020, 4:41pm
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I am not using any VPN to be honest. My behaviour has not even changed the last months to be honest to suspect me.
I was mostly curious if this is happening to more Brave users
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not sure what could be the cause
could you help us @Mattches here and have a nice day everyone
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@costa ,
Can you please try opening a new browser profile (Menu --> Create profile
) and see if you get the same behavior?
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costa
October 15, 2020, 2:53pm
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Hey @Mattches !
False alarm as I found out.
I was doing some google searches for LinkedIn profiles and though I was a bot trying to bypass probably LinkedIn’s search functionality.
I found it as I was using Chrome today to see if I Google still detects me as a bot, and it does.
It’s a “Google thing” … not much that can be done.
It’ll happen more often if you’re using Private mode (or a VPN).
If you have more than one devices (like 2-3 other computer users on your network) accessing Google services, that can trigger it.
https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/2596872?hl=en
NOTE: This is not a Brave issue … it’s on the Google end.
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@caldercay ,
Thank you for confirming this for us. Going to mark this as closed for now.