I’m fairly new to using VPNs. Since I’ve started using one, whenever I go to search Google or go to a specific site it brings up a Captcha page first with a brief message saying something about how my request is suspicious and how i might be a bot. It’s not terribly annoying, but just mildly inconvenient as it delays me from getting where I’m trying to go.
I understand that the VPN is protecting my device’s identity and that that may confuse websites, but I just want to know whether or not this is normal behavior (and if not, what settings or actions I may need to check and correct).
Try getting a dedicated ip for your vpn, it means only you use this ip address and not thousands of other people
Vpn implies privacy but you use google?
In a typical VPN, you use dynamic IP address, based on the userbase of the VPN, the IP address of the server you are using is used by the masses, multiple websites detect the time frames of how thr IP address is used and accessed.
Google detects the same IP due its fast accessing and frequency of the users eho visited, so by nature, Google or other websites that use captcha like (Cloudflare) will pop the captcha challenge.
Other popular VPNs offers static or dedicated IP which treats like a fresh user with no captchas whatsover unless you vist the same website multiple times and quickly.
The only issue is that your server’s IP address is easily detectable and makes it easy for tracking and identifying the users’ activites, Unlike Dynamic IP addresses that have the shared IP addresses that makes it harder to link activites to a certain user. (Same concept to TOR but not to distract the idea)
This is normal, a lot of sites treat connections coming from VPN as suspicious, Google included. With Google though, their reCaptcha often just performs an automatic check as long as you’re logged in your Google account.
As for specific sites, most of the times you’re probably seeing Cloudflare’s hCaptcha.
Thanks for the response, much appreciated!
Which I’m guessing is only offered for paid VPNs? I’m using a free one now but plan on upgrading to the paid version.
Yeah…I’m not proud of it. Google/Chrome has been my preferred browser for a while just because it’s convenient, but I’ve slowly been transitioning and trying out Adblock Browser and DuckDuckGo on my Android and Firefox on my mac. Idk why but it’s been a hard transition for me.
There’s UBlock Origin you might also consider to block ads.