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>2. You're using Tor or a VPN? Here's 10 reCaptcha's.

I get recapthca ALL the time for just not being logged on and deleting all filthy cookies on exit; and not "honoring" 3rd party cookies at all... and I don't care. Best part is that if you live in a country you don't speak the language you get google services in one of the country official languages -- so what you should do and mark is often unclear. The next best part is a road trip through Europe (edit adding "?hl=en" to the url tends to fix the issue in most of google services)

>4. Youtube video includes education hacking tutorials? Demonetized.

History is a far greater offender.

>1. Our ML models see that your emails spam? You're spam.

Years ago, I recall my company hosted gmail started detecting CEO mails as spam... and he was pissed for not getting responses.

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> (edit adding "?hl=en" to the url tends to fix the issue in most of google services)

Seriously, you shouldn't have to. Your browser sends language preferences, doesn't it? Nope, IP trumps user preferences.

Had the same problem when using my job's VPN with an exit point in Germany (working from France). Very annoying.

>Your browser sends language preferences, doesn't it?

Since http1.0[0]... I have wanted to add another header -> "RespectAlHeaders:All-Custom-CrRafted", so the wimpy implementation of ip->country->language is duly removed.

[0]: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt

Google also forces certain countries to use Hijri calendar with no option to switch to Gregorian.

Even if your language is English and your calendar is Gregorian, it will still display news dated in Hijri. No setting or option to change.

Ok, that's cruel

I was getting really long and annoying recaptcha all the time, presumably because I use Safari which has all that anti-tracking stuff. But lately (past 2-3 months?) I only get a single challenge, I wonder if they've found a way around the protection or if they've just changed the model

>Safari which has all that anti-tracking stuff.

Default Safari option for 3rd party cookies is: "from visited". Check if you have cookies set, if you do - they know you have been a good boy.

It's not that simple with Intelligent Tracking Prevention.

FWIW I've observed the same change in Firefox on Linux (with privacy.resistfingerprinting enabled) in the last few months.

OMG, me too, and all I did was to tighten up cookies (disable 3rd party trackers, erase all cookies on close, etc).

Now I've got a PhD on solving "traffic light" and "crosswalk" Captchas as a result.

I started to resent Google for this, except now I think twice before going to a web site that will give me these hurdles, so it ended up helping me to focus on my work. Now I appreciate the extra work.

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