I tried NordVPN after reading this, and also am not getting captchas now. And presumably it just has to do with where I’m located, but I’m getting faster speeds and a more stable connection than I had with PIA. I’m still in the trial phase, but if this keeps up, I’m not renewing my PIA in a couple months.
Weird. I just switched from Nord to PIA, and I’ve gotten captchas on both.
Learned something new today, thanks!
that’s correct cross-walk = zebra
I had the occasional captcha here and there, only about a month ago it turned into neverending loops.
now is much more frequent then some years ago…I will move again to duckduckgo and see how it goes, but I read that they are not very trustworthy also cannot remember now what was the issue but something happened does anybody remember what was it……changing subject a little bit, the idea of building my own vpn is starting to grow.
Interesting. I havent had any issues so far with split tunneling. I run PIA on 2 macs using split tunneling to access streaming services via IP.
What are the benefits of a dedicated IP with PIA besides of that? Honest question
Doesn’t help anymore I am afraid.
I started to use a dedicated browser just for googling
Clearing the browser cookies seems to have helped.
Look at the “Split Tunneling” option. I also have two browsers open. One that bypasses the VPN and one that doesn’t.
Or a wierd option is to use opera browser’s built in vpn which wierdly isn’t flagged by google … so using opera’s vpn inside pia’s vpn
Thanks, glad I was right. But even so I got lots of repeated Google requests to find the crosswalks that I was beginning to think I was wrong, lol.
It only started working a couple of months ago. Before that it would stop all internet traffic.
I get way less prompts in general for doing captchas and stuff. Practically none I think.
I can’t remember why I tried it in the first place though honestly. I did it for a month the first time and when it stopped working I was definitely annoyed and bought another one for a year.
Got it, cheers. Not ideal but will have to do for now.
Personally I have split tunneling set up so that by default the VPN is off, and only my web browser (Brave) is running through the VPN.
This avoids having issues with my media server, streaming services and gaming. None of which I particularly care if my ISP can see. So any other browser, like Chrome/Edge, doesn’t go through the VPN by default, which is helpful for situations where VPN is causing issues.
Except that the Opera browser “free” VPN is owned by a Chinese company and privacy and security expectations should go accordingly.
Tip, watch out for the yellow vehicles when Google asks you to locate a bus. Apparently they believe that buses all over the World are painted yellow even if everybody knows that they are painted in red.