Recently, in addition to that, they started to just lock the entire search results page behind a login prompt on some of those bad IP addresses (like YouTube does for some time with the "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" prompt). This potentially makes the service less accessible, especially for those using a shared/public computers.
I did not even get this prompt on some VPN IPs, and even no CAPTCHAs at all, even with a free one like given by Firefox.
Has anyone encountered that? I just encountered this today. It's really unfortunate for the internet to become less friendly to signed-out users, especially since AI scrapers starting to "abuse" the internet for their value.
ggm•1h ago
"We" are side issues in this. Our channels to state what we want of search and ai are highly constrained and mostly ignored.
We are however why there is any revenue in this overall system. It's because we use it, they can monetize it, and I think this may become important to Google search KPIs and google AI KPIs