It's still not clear at this point what their motivations are. Also the FAQ should be changed to reflect this: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#GoogleCAPTCHA Specifically this part "To our knowledge, Google is not doing anything intentionally specificallyto deter or block Tor use."
21. Jan 2017 13:16 by hi...@safe-mail.net: > https://duckduckgo.com> has become increasingly better lately. Only during > the past 6 months or so, their search results have become almost on par > with the big ones, like Google, Bing, etc. > > In regards to Google, it all comes down to censorship and anti-privacy. > Just like Microsoft and Windows 10 which now has a publicly known > back-door, which you agree to in the ToS, enabling them to search through > your whole computer at any given time and place. God bless Linux! > > These are the two biggest companies, within online searching and OS, > practicing pro censorship and anti-privacy. And it all make sense from a > governmental/police point of view. > > Simply avoid them! > >> Of course they have no problem with tor, because tor >> is not really a problem for such big infrastructures, and >> it's simple search, which is not a big deal. It's evil google >> that has the problem. And censors, causing you to miss >> relavant original subthreads... >> >> https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2017-January/035081.html >> https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2017-January/035121.html >> >> Might not care about a single captcha, if it were shown >> to be somehow dos or monetarily needed in an open >> public presentation. But EvilG hasn't done that. They're >> not single, solved ones don't persist to grant future access >> even though they set many cookies. doesn't happen over >> clearnet, and so on. Google just plain sucks on this and >> the SMS creation issue. >> -- >> tor-talk mailing list - >> tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >> To unsubscribe or change other settings go to >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- > tor-talk mailing list - > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk