Comments on: Google + Tor

By: scott

scott — Tue, 17 May 2011 02:39:42 +0000

This is old news and nonsense.

For pete’s sakes….Tor is working WITH Google now!! So much for ‘anonymity’ being a primary goal LOL In fact, Google is FUNDING Tor. Check out the Tor website if you don’t believe me.

re: ‘Google’s summer of code’ exercise

At the end of the day, they all sell out for $$$

Tor says they wouldn’t have only if more propellor heads had volunteered to help them out but since they didn’t, they are taking money from Google.

Google knows how to dominate.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:47:23 +0000

True.It seems Google doesn't like Tor and blocks it(not some of the time but) all the time.Alex

By: one who reads the fa

one who reads the fa — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:20:06 +0000

"To our knowledge, Google is not doing anything intentionally specifically to deter or block Tor use. The error message about an infected machine should clear up again after a short time."

http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#GoogleSpyware

By: Speaker to animals

Speaker to animals — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:15:38 +0000

i just love seeing the google ads along the page as i read the comments. yup google still going strong w/ 403. Bastards.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:45:46 +0000

I hate to say it but Google is not a fan of TOR because they can’t gather information on your computer while you are using TOR and an annonimous proxy. Haven’t you figure out that Google is into snooping your business too?

By: one who reads the faq

one who reads the faq — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:22:25 +0000

“To our knowledge, Google is not doing anything intentionally specifically to deter or block Tor use. The error message about an infected machine should clear up again after a short time.”

http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#GoogleSpyware

By: nil0lab

nil0lab — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:24:47 +0000

It may also have to do with privoxy sanitizing the request and google not getting the (excessive amount of) data a browser usually gives them with a request (referrer, os, etc.)

By: Tyler Reguly

Tyler Reguly — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:16:32 +0000

I agree that Google is most likely blocking the IPs because of automated scanning by someone via Tor… however I still think at some point they are blacklisting the exit points permanently…

By: Ero Carrera

Ero Carrera — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:46:36 +0000

I vote for the hypothesis that they are just blocking it because of too many queries coming out of those IPs… maybe they blacklist them once they go beyond certain threshold (hence the missing CAPTCHA as well). I’ve been playing with “unofficial” query automation (i.e. not using Google API) and doesn’t really take much to upset their automation detection algorithms… it’s enough with a few queries fast enough.

By: Jibbler

Jibbler — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:39:50 +0000

Are you sure this has anything to do with Tor? That looks like the standard error you get from Google if you appear to be doing lots of automated queries. Bearing in mind how many other clients (humans and bots) are likely to be using the same Tor exit node, that is not a surprising phenomonon. I doubt Google are explicitly blocking use of Tor.