On: Never again be thwarted by restrictive “guest” wifi (e.g. on buses or airplanes)

[olalonde]

Same experience using Slicehost as a VPN and searching on Google:

    We're sorry...

    ... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.

[ceol → olalonde]

When SSHing from a Linode server, I generally get a captcha on Google and then I assume they whitelist my IP for a bit, because I don't see it again.

[olalonde → ceol]

Same experience with Linode but unfortunately, I don't even get a CAPTCHA when using my Slicehost VPN.

[kibwen → olalonde]

I get this same message about once a week since I frequently use my Linode VPS as a proxy for my web traffic, but it's never lasted for more than a half hour or so. I've always wondered why their heuristics only seem to notice me so infrequently. Do you get it consistently?

[rapind → kibwen]

Possible you only have that problem during peak hours? I would wager they're just rate limiting by IP or IP pool.

[olalonde → kibwen]

Yes, I have never been able to access Google from my Slicehost VPN IIRC. I also used a Linode VPN for a while and got the message infrequently with the possibility to enter a CAPTCHA to complete my request.

[stock_toaster → olalonde]

Wasn't slicehost used as part of that google gmail hack thing a while back (in 2009 or something)? Or was that linode? I can't remember.