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This is why once I switched to FF I also switched to DuckDuckGo



The captcha has nothing to do with Google the search engine. Google's catpcha is used on a lot of websites which are not connected with Google.

On a different note, this also makes it difficult to use such websites if you block google domains in your adblocker for non-Google sites.


You would think that they wouldn't block search. But Google kept throwing me at captcha when I was in FF and not signed in. The biggest pain so far has been the lack of map integration.


They actually block you from search if you're connecting from a VPN and have uMatrix enabled.




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