Google asks if I'm a robot. What to do if the google search engine constantly requires you to enter a captcha? What to do if Google requires you to enter a captcha

Quite often, users began to contact me with the same question that when searching, the Google search engine constantly asks to enter the code from the picture. And for some people, when entering Google, they immediately ask you to enter a captcha, without even opening the search line itself.

And so that questions do not arise, I will try to explain why this happens and how you can try to solve this trouble.

Why is Google constantly asking for a code?

In fact, there are not so many reasons, or rather two.

1. The most popular reason, you have a dynamic IP address (usually mobile operators), which is used by many users. Not all users are "created equal".

If some users enter the network for work, for leisure or communication, then others may engage in spam, parsing search results, launch different programs (bots) that automatically send many requests to a search engine or other sites, which ultimately leads to the fact that that the ip address gets into different black lists and database spam.

By the way, not all Internet providers are in a hurry to "pull" their ip from spam sheets.

And some do not specifically get ip, so that there is less spam.

2. An equally popular reason is viruses on your computer. We downloaded an extension for the browser or a program, and in it there was a “surprise” in the form of a virus.

BUT, do not rush to panic, usually viruses want money, and not force you to enter a code when entering a search engine 🙂

Yes, I almost forgot that in addition to entering the code and phone number, it happens that Google just writes:

"We have detected suspicious traffic originating from your network."

and there is no captcha, but just a white page and the search does not open at all. In this case, this is the full ip base.

What if Google requires you to enter a captcha?

The actions are actually simple:

1. If you have a dynamic ip, then it changes every time you connect to the Internet.
You just need to restart your modem, router and reconnect to the network.
It is advisable to restart the computer too, although it is not necessary.

2. Try to register the public DNS of Google itself, in many cases it helps.

How to prescribe:

go to network and sharing management
click on change adapter parameters

In the window, you will see all your connections.

Highlight your connection, press right click mouse and select properties.

At the very bottom of the list there will be an item Internet Protocol version 4, select and click properties.

Set the parameter to use the following dns server addresses and write it as shown in the screenshot:

we prefer dns-server we enter
8.8.8.8
alternate DNS server
8.8.4.4

press ok and restart the router for the changes to take effect.

As a rule, this helps and Google no longer asks you to enter a captcha when searching.

If for some reason you want to return everything back, in the same window, check the Obtain DNS server address automatically option and click ok. (this will return everything to its original state)

You can also write to change the provider with "gray" ip addresses, but this option is not suitable, since almost all mobile operators have problems with captchas.

Well, not everyone in cities has the opportunity to choose a provider.

But, if the method above did not suit you and google constantly asks you to enter captcha, there is another one additional way to everything described above, which should save you from the appearance of Google captcha.

1. Create mailbox at gmail.com (if you don't already have one).

2. In the browser Google chrome go to the settings and log in using your mail, which you created.

Once you've done this, google captcha won't show up as often.

If you are using a browser other than Google Chrome, but use Google search, there is only one solution, open in one tab gmail mail and be authorized in it.

And finally, check your computer for viruses and all kinds of "byaku" that can independently conduct any activity on your computer, just in case 🙂

All Internet users have come across the field "I am not a robot", opposite which you need to put a checkmark in order to continue working on the site. How does this field know that you are not really a robot and why it has meaning? To answer this question, we must remember what a captcha is.

CAPTCHA stands for fully automated public Turing test for recognizing computers and people. This test was invented in 2003 by Louis von An and his research team at Carnegie Mellon University. The purpose of these garbled chunks of text is to stop the spread of spam and automatic programs on the Internet, like buying up all the tickets sold online for their resale at a higher price. Captcha works because humans can recognize garbled text and random character sets, but computers and bots cannot.

If you want to stop the robots, then install a captcha on your website. As a result, it is currently used on millions of sites and users encounter it on a daily basis. Won Ahn began to think about whether he could use something more convenient and advanced and answered this question in the affirmative. The developers decided to use the power of intelligence to digitize all existing real books. The books need to be scanned, and then optical character recognition software is used to convert the words into digital text.

All words that are too difficult to recognize were placed in the reCAPTCHA database. Instead of displaying random sets of characters, the captcha began to show words from books that the computer could not understand. When a sufficient number of Internet users entered this word, it is considered confirmed and sent to the database. e-books... Won Ahn called this project reCAPTCHA.

The creators are promoting the slogan "Stop spam, read books." ReCAPTCHA is used more than 100 million times every day, which is equivalent to reading 2.5 million books a year. Google decided to buy reCAPTCHA and did so in 2009. They began to use the power of their intellect to digitize the archive of New York Times articles beginning in the 19th century, as well as all Google Books. When these resources were depleted, Google began using house numbers from Google Street View and designations from google maps... However, the story doesn't end there.

There are a couple of problems left. For example, reCAPTCHA cannot be used by blind people. For this reason, an audio reCAPTCHA has been added, where words are spoken aloud. In addition, even with sight, reCAPTCHA presents problems for people with dyslexia. We started to appear with services that dealt with reCAPTCHA automatically, naturally, not for free. These services are used by employees in third world countries who, for a small fee, enter captcha manually and send it back to users.

The last and most important problem lies in computer vision technologies, which have become so high quality that they have learned to solve captchas on their own. Therefore, the engineers thought about how to complicate the process. Various font distortions, digital noise, additional lines began to be used, but technologies continued to develop and learned to overcome these difficulties.

Google decided to do some research and found that people recognize complex captchas only 33% of the time, while Google's own algorithms recognize captchas 99.8% of the time. It seems that computers are already smarter than humans. As a result, Google decided to abandon various twisted combinations of characters and began to use a field labeled "I'm not a robot." This field is named NO CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA.

When you click on the checkbox, an HTTP request is sent to Google with a variety of information. This includes your IP address, country, timestamp, information from the browser, such as data about the cursor movement in the second before you tick the box, how you scrolled the page before clicking, the time intervals between different browser events and many others. variables that Google does not disclose.

All of these parameters are processed by machine learning and risk analysis algorithms. In most cases, the results of the analysis are able to distinguish a person from computer program... However, risk analysis shows that in a small percentage of cases there are doubts and then an additional task is posed to the user. Pictures appear that he must recognize. For example, the user should check all pictures that show high-rise buildings, road signs, shops, etc. If, as a result, you can prove that you are human, the Google engine will remember this and the next time you click on the field "I'm not a robot" you will get access without having to click on the pictures.

Captcha technology (CAPTCHA) is an automated test designed to identify computerized users, aka bots.

Its goal is to formulate a problem that can be easily solved by a person, but difficult for a computer.

But, there are also situations when a seemingly useful script becomes too intrusive.

There is an assumption that Google trains the AI of its drones, thanks to users entering captcha with pictures, I am not a robot.

How to remove captcha I'm not a robot

The reasons for this behavior may vary, but you can always try to fix everything - we carry out the actions as they are eliminated:

Disconnect and reconnect an active Internet connection. Reboot your router or modem. Thus, the IP address may change.
We resort to the help of a VPN service. The latter are both paid and free to use. Provided as extensions (add-ons) for browsers and as separately-installed software on a computer.
We also look at the installed extensions. For example, the latest version of Yandex Browser itself disables plugins from unverified sources and periodically checks those already installed for counterfeiting.
Check if JavaScript is enabled in the web browser: Settings -> Show additional settings→ block of personal data Content settings → JavaScript section.
Do not forget about antivirus software- it is possible that the computer has become a victim of a botnet, hence the dissatisfaction with the CAPTCHA for the traffic generated at this address.

It is interesting that hundreds of millions of "captchas" are entered by Internet users every day. At the same time, it is no secret that not everyone manages to enter it correctly the first time.

Hello dear readers of the blog site. Literally a little time I want to devote a relatively new captcha from Google (it was announced about a year ago), which replaced the old and confused one. Earlier, probably few bloggers who were in their minds could put the brainchild of Google on their website or blog - it was too dreary to solve the letter puzzles offered there. All the convenience of commenting was lost.

Actually, at that distant time, I still used a perfectly working one. To pass it, you just had to put a checkmark in the box "I'm not a robot" and all (of all possible). If the checkbox was not checked, then the message fell into the basket in the WordPress admin panel, or when the basket was disabled (as in my case), it was simply not added to the database. The ideal option, in my opinion, because it did not create any special inconveniences for the commentator.

Then this plugin stopped working, and I used it with success for about six months, but this method also stopped working after updating WordPress to version 4.4. During this time, I tried a couple of plugins that filter out spam based on recipient and content analysis (Antispam Bee and CleanTalk). The first one was quite confused (spam is not spam, but non-spam is spam), and the second, contrary to expectations, did not reduce, but increased the load on the server (and even paid, besides).

In general, I decided to go back to the tried and tested method - installation of the simplest existing captcha... DCaptcha no longer works, but the giant Google has seriously simplified its initially monstrous reCAPTCHA and reduced the entire check to the very same checkbox "I'm not a robot". Unfortunately, I'm too stupid to understand how to attach this thing to a site without a plugin (although I tried it), so I had to use the services of the No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA plugin. But first things first.

Spam load reduction methods and why reCAPTCHA?

As you probably know spam can be manual or automatic... You can protect yourself from the first only by turning on the obligatory moderation of all incoming messages before publishing them on the blog - then for sure no "radish" will break through.

But manual spam, as a rule, is a frail trickle compared to the full-flowing river of auto spam. The latter can be generated, for example, by Hrumer in fantastic volumes. Personally, it’s not even the fact that several hundred spam comments come to my WordPress admin area per day, but the fact that they can be monstrously long and you get tired of scrolling to the “Delete” button. In general, this problem is real and the more relevant the more popular your blog is.

There is no point in fighting manual spam (because of the doom of this struggle and because of its insignificant volume), but something needs to be done with auto spam. There is, as it were two main approaches:

Filter comments already added to the WordPress database for spam / non-spam and push them into the appropriate folders. Unfortunately, plugins that work on this principle give out a lot of rejects and you simply won't be able to empty the "Spam" folder without viewing its contents if you don't want to lose dozens of really valuable comments sent by active readers of your blog.
Attach an additional check to the form for adding a comment as to who exactly leaves this message - a live person or a bot. The task of identifying this difference is called the Turing test and is solved in the overwhelming majority of cases using the so-called captcha (derived from CAPTCHA, which is an abbreviation for a set of smart words). The main problem with this method of fighting spam is that you annoy the commentators with solving the "rebus" (captcha), which can discourage him from continuing to try to leave a message at all.

However, captchas, as I said, are quite simple. Google has taken a major step in this direction and now his new reCAPTCHA just an example of simplicity and grace for the overwhelming majority of users who have come to your site (although a small number of them may still be asked to enter characters from the picture if the algorithm has doubts about its humanity).

This is how Google's reCaptcha will look for 99.9% of your website visitors:

Well, like this, in the event of force majeure (if the algorithm, after conducting a dozen tests for humanity, nevertheless becomes confused):

The durability of this protection can be judged by the fact that services for recognizing captcha (or) charge twice as much money for a recap. A very telling indicator.

Well, as if the choice is made - you need to implement it.

Registering a site in reCAPTCHA and installing it on your blog

Registration is simply an indication of the name and domain name of your site, where you plan to use this captcha itself:

After that, you will be taken to the admin panel of the reCAPTCHA service for your site (it probably makes sense to add it to your browser bookmarks). Over time, statistics on the operation of this captcha will be displayed there, but for now the most important thing that we can learn from here is just those same keys, without which "I am not a robot" will not work:

Below are the installation instructions. In the area of "Integration on the client side" everything is clear, but simply installing the provided code in the specified places is not enough. Captcha will be displayed, but spam will not be filtered. In the area of "Integration on the server side" I do not understand anything at all. I'm stupid for that.

Therefore the decision was made use a plugin to integrate reCAPTCHA in WordPress Fortunately, there are a lot of options for such plugins (read). True, three of them did not work for me (captcha did not appear in the area for adding comments). After several unsuccessful attempts, I had to turn to smart people for a solution, where I was noticed and subsequently successfully installed a plug-in with an intricate name (like oil is not oil) -.

Setting up and working of the No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA plugin in WordPress

Well, actually, go to the WordPress admin panel, select "Plugins" - "Add new" from the left menu, enter No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA in the search box and install. Remember to activate it and then the usual way go to its settings (at the bottom of the left menu you will find a new item "No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA").

Actually, here of all the settings, the most important is, again, to enter the keys obtained just above on the reCAPTCHA website:

After saving these changes, the plugin will immediately defends your comments from spammers.

And not just comments. In the settings you can protect with this captcha and the WordPress admin login form:

Even in the settings, you can replace the light color scheme of the recaptcha with a dark one, and also either allow the captcha to guess the user's language by itself, or install it forcibly.

Actually, that's all. I have not yet forcibly reset the cache in WordPress (I updated only those articles to which Hrumer is traditionally not indifferent), so reCAPTCHA is not displayed on all pages. So far, no complaints have been noticed in the work.

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site

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Often, many computer users are faced with a situation where, when trying to find any information on the Internet in a browser window, instead of search results, they see a picture that suggests confirming that they are not a robot. And for further surfing the Internet, unfortunate users have to type a captcha or gaze intently at blurry pictures, in general, waste time to prove that they are not robots, but just people who wanted to go to the Internet. In this article, I propose to understand why this is happening and how to deal with this problem.

Why it happens?

First, let's figure out why this is happening. Firstly, this problem occurs due to the fact that some search engines have taken responsibility for controlling the "behavior" of users on the Internet. This is usually done in order to prevent the use of specialized programs that imitate the actions of ordinary Internet users visiting various sites.

Secondly, a similar situation can arise when Internet users excessively often use the services of various anonymizers, VPN clients, and also use other tricks to hide information about an Internet user or replace it with another (real or virtual).

What browsers happens in?

This can happen in any browser that uses the search engines "Google" or "Yandex". Moreover, in this matter, the search engine "Google" is showing great "malignancy". Figure 1 shows appearance"Manifestations of distrust" to the user from the search engine "Google". Figure 2 shows a similar situation with the Yandex search engine.

Fig. 2 (see Fig. 1 1) shows an example of a captcha for identifying an Internet user in the Yandex search engine. Figure 3 shows an example of identification in the Google search engine.

To combat this situation, various users use different ways... Someone stubbornly peers at the proposed text or picture, types this text or clicks on the "correct" images, someone struggles with this problem with the help of specialized programs, and someone just spits on this situation and stops trying to find an answer on the Internet to a question of interest to him.

But the solution to this problem is extremely simple (at least at the moment).

Ways to get around the "I'm not a robot" problem when searching for information on the Internet

First, reduce to the required minimum the use of various anonymizers, VPN clients, etc.

Secondly, as noted above, this problem is independent of the browser used, but only depends on the search engine. It follows from this - just go to another search engine. At the moment, the most reliable and not biased in this matter are the search engines "DucDucGo" "Yahoo" and "Bing". There are other search engines that, in a fit of blocking search spam (manual and machine), have not yet tried to mock Internet users, who, for some reason, are “too hard” to disguise themselves. If you do not want to change the settings search engines and browsers on your computer, once selected by you, just set links to the above search engines on the bookmarks bar of your favorite browsers. And when "Google" or "Yandex" require you to prove that you are not a robot, just open any of these links and re-enter your search query in the search bar.

I do not give direct links to the specified search engines, because they (links) may change from time to time, and it is quite difficult to keep track of the changes, all the more to remember in which article and in what place this link was used. You can always find these links on the Internet.

Thirdly, if you still have an urgent need to use the search engines "Google" or "Yandex" while searching on the Internet (for example, you have been blocked on some site), then when searching, use not a search phrase, but a specific one. Url. Google, unlike Yandex, loves it very much.

Well, in conclusion, as I said above and in the article "", you should not use the services of anonymizers, VPN clients, etc. unnecessarily unnecessarily. and hide on the Internet too often. First, it is easy to calculate. Secondly, despite the fact that the distributors of "anonymous surfing" services shout in unison that their services are absolutely safe, this is far from the case. Who can be sure that by installing on their VPN computer client, do you put any trojan along with it? Who can be 100% sure that the anonymizers' servers do not keep a log of your actions through their server? And in general, how did you check the reliability of companies that provide anonymous surfing?

There are other ways to disable the “I'm not a robot” identification system. I suggested one of them and, in my opinion, the simplest. I don’t know how long it will work, because Recently, most search engines are too fond of "keeping an eye on the pulse" (more precisely, on the throat) of their users and force them to constantly register and give them their confidential information.

Itsenko Alexander Ivanovich