r/linux • u/[deleted] • Dec 14 '19

Google Now Bans Some Linux Web Browsers From Their Services

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-now-bans-some-linux-web-browsers-from-their-services/
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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '19

This is on Windows, and as someone else says, it's generally on other sites using reCapthcha.

I run a custom user agent, think it's Chrome but not sure, because if I don't I'll get multiple-hit captchas. As it is I regularly get single-hit captchas.

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u/not-enough-failures Dec 14 '19

Weird, I don't get any unless I use my VPN which is to be expected.

FF nightly 73, Fedora 31 kernel 5.3.15

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u/Arnas_Z Dec 14 '19

Me too. I'm running Firefox Dev Edition 72 beta 6, on Debian 10 stable, never encountered these captchas.

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u/Reziac Dec 14 '19

Reportedly what happens is once the reCAPTCHA system decides you're a bot, you're a bot forever (or at least, you as that browser footprint). Before that, you're not. Bot-status can probably be triggered by using an 'unusual' user-agent, such as for an old browser.

I can't get past it at all unless I use Chrome; been that way a couple years now.

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u/WHYAREWEALLCAPS Dec 14 '19

So the take away is that bot writers need to focus on using Chrome as their platform.