I use VPNs quite heavily, and whenever I Google something, I get greeted with a captcha. The worst part about this is that it doesn't stop on the first puzzle - I see upwards of 5 puzzles at a time, and if I'm really lucky (/s), the pieces of the puzzle will load slowly too (eg., you keep tapping the pieces with a fire hydrant and a new one appears in its place, and you cannot submit until all fire hydrants have been selected). These puzzles are really shit and often ambiguous (traffic lights, stairs, bikes in a picture of a bicycle) so I may be doing it wrong and that's why I keep getting more and more puzzles.<p>There are some patterns though:
1. On Safari mobile, I see the captcha every time I search for something.
2. On Firefox desktop, I see it the first time I search, and then it prompts again after x hours/minutes.<p>Curious to learn more about what affects this, and how I can improve the search experience without disabling my VPN.
Oh you're specifically referring to services google offers. Though before recapthas, I ran into the same problem with their ordinary capthas, since they declared <i>you're a bot</i> for using involved search switches, which for me was near every time, since most of my searches were looking for in depth information, specific, and not broad grasping. Way back then I had a way around it, by banning (deny) the specific domain google used and refreshing each search instance to run google searches, worked for a while but pretty soon their results were so sub par I moved to other search engines.