Comments on: Google + Tor

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.

By: Tyler Reguly

Tyler Reguly — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:39:33 +0000

Someone using Tor may be making Google not like Tor… but that doesn’t change the fact that Google doesn’t like Tor … I’ve actually changed my exit points numerous times and every exit point has the same result. On top of that, the CAPTCHA image doesn’t appear… which would normally allow you to bypass the message… however if you disable Tor and refresh, the CAPTCHA image is there.

By: Ryan Poppa

Ryan Poppa — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:36:08 +0000

Sorry dude. This is the standard error that you get when Google has seen too many “requests” coming from your IP that seem suspicious and/or automated without using the Google API

The likely culprit is that someone who is using Tor (and is exiting through the present proxy that you are using), is making some pretty heavy handed requests to Google and Google is blocking your outbound IP, which is the tor proxy you are presently using.