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ikr678today at 6:25 AM5 repliesview on HN

And you must be signed in.

I frequently get flagged as suspicious activity and have to pass a captcha when trying to use the Google verbatim search function on a signed out Firefox browser on android.


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avanwyktoday at 12:12 PM

I get this all the time with Brave, and especially in Private Windows. It's the number one reason I don't use Google Search anymore. I've used Brave search for a while, what do you use? Do you have a way to prevent the captchas?

Angosturatoday at 7:23 AM

I get it all the time on my Mac with Safari using iCloud private relay

jeroenhdtoday at 8:20 AM

> And you must be signed in.

I don't see any mention of that? Google Play services work fine without an account (although if you're the kind of person who doesn't sign in to a Google account on their Android phone, you're probably running a custom ROM or something)

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