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Unfortunately can't use it: I'm on my private VPN almost all the time (need it for work). VPN is hosted as OpenVPN service on German Digital Ocean server to have static public IP. The VPN is mine only (sure IP is not), I'm the only person who uses it. Brave Search shows error on accessing: https://ibb.co/72L3mc5 . Other search engines open without problems. Turning off VPN helps, but I don't really understand why my (Digital Ocean's) ip is related to opening the web search page? Even if someone "compromised" that IP - it should not be a stopper to open the search from my point of logical view.

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Same here, I’m in Shenzhen using Shadowsocks VPNs and many of my faster exit IPs were being blocked in recent months. Other times there are 5xx errors and when it does work, it’s significantly slower than Google and even DDG, especially on lossy / jittery links.

I really hope they improve the service, I was enjoying it as my default for a while.

I usually can barely browse the internet using VPN through OVS, Digital Ocean, Scaleway and others. All websites assume my traffic is not from a person but from an automated server.

That error looks really generic. It's actively trying to tell humans how to workaround the block, but seemingly without any contextual awareness. It's almost like it's from a "block automated traffic as a service" service. Now I'm curious if there any clues about the provider in the the HTML/CSS/JS of the block page.

A LOT of abuse come from datacenter IP ranges. Most sites find it easier to just blacklist them all.

It seems normal to me that they only want access from residential IP blocks.

Ok, but others are not restricting such behavior, so this one is a restriction for me. They can decide whether traffic is an organic search at least checking if I rush their page with the rate of 100 requests per second or smth similar. For me this is a downside that I'm restricted in usage of "public" resource.

Google answers with a captcha occasionally, the 'suspiscious traffic from your network' one

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