Re: Google and Tor.

2010-08-27 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Orionjur Tor-admin (tor-ad...@orionjurinform.com): This should be fixed in Torbutton 1.2.6. When you plan to release it? Well the current plan is to add support for FF4 and fix a smattering of bugs, including this one, in the 1.2.6 release. However, I am also trying to help fix

Re: Google and Tor.

2010-08-26 Thread Mike Perry
of the queries coming from Tor can justify denying so many users easy access to their site. If Tor exit nodes were allowed to bypass Google's CAPTCHA, someone could put up a low-bandwidth Tor exit node and then send their own automated queries directly to Google from their Tor exit's IP. Good point

Re: Google and Tor.

2010-08-26 Thread Orionjur Tor-admin
Mike Perry wrote: This should be fixed in Torbutton 1.2.6. Hello Mike, When you plan to release it? *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body.

Google and Tor.

2010-08-25 Thread Matthew
On numerous occasions when using Google with Tor (yes, I know there are other options like Scroogle) it claims I might be sending automated queries and gives me a CAPTCHA. Sometimes this allows me to search; other times I am caught in a loop and am constantly send back to the CAPTCHA screen

Re: Google and Tor.

2010-08-25 Thread Matthew
On 25/08/10 15:38, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Matthewpump...@cotse.net wrote: On numerous occasions when using Google with Tor (yes, I know there are other options like Scroogle) it claims I might be sending automated queries and gives me a CAPTCHA. Sometimes

Re: Google and Tor.

2010-08-25 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Matthew pump...@cotse.net wrote: People are running automated datamining queries _via tor_ in order to gain control of more IPs and avoid being blocked. What is a datamining query exactly?  Is this what I would call typing some text into the search box and

Re: Google and Tor.

2010-08-25 Thread Jim
Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Matthew pump...@cotse.net wrote: People are running automated datamining queries _via tor_ in order to gain control of more IPs and avoid being blocked. I think it would be nice if captchas and blocking weren't the only

Re: Google and Tor.

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Matthew (pump...@cotse.net): On numerous occasions when using Google with Tor (yes, I know there are other options like Scroogle) it claims I might be sending automated queries and gives me a CAPTCHA. Sometimes this allows me to search; other times I am caught in a loop and am

Re: Google and Tor.

2010-08-25 Thread Aplin, Justin M
On 8/25/2010 8:52 PM, Mike Perry wrote: Thus spake Matthew (pump...@cotse.net): On numerous occasions when using Google with Tor (yes, I know there are other options like Scroogle) it claims I might be sending automated queries and gives me a CAPTCHA. Sometimes this allows me to search

Re: Google and Tor.

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Aplin, Justin M (jmap...@ufl.edu): On 8/25/2010 8:52 PM, Mike Perry wrote: Thus spake Matthew (pump...@cotse.net): On numerous occasions when using Google with Tor (yes, I know there are other options like Scroogle) it claims I might be sending automated queries

Re: Google and Tor.

2010-08-25 Thread Robert Ransom
access to their site. If Tor exit nodes were allowed to bypass Google's CAPTCHA, someone could put up a low-bandwidth Tor exit node and then send their own automated queries directly to Google from their Tor exit's IP. Robert Ransom signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Google and Tor

2009-07-08 Thread grarpamp
GMail doesn't do this anymore. You can sign up through Tor just fine. Yes, there was a time years ago where they were invite only :( Then they opened up. This does not refer to that historical thing. I tried making four different acct names over the span of a day about a day before I first

Re: Google and Tor

2009-07-08 Thread Jim McClanahan
grarpamp wrote: GMail doesn't do this anymore. You can sign up through Tor just fine. Yes, there was a time years ago where they were invite only :( Then they opened up. This does not refer to that historical thing. I tried making four different acct names over the span of a day

Re: Google and Tor

2009-07-05 Thread Jim McClanahan
James Brown wrote: I use the gmail within Tor very easy but I have some problems sometimes with other services of Google. For maybe I couple of years it has been almost impossible for me to use Google's search via Tor. (It keeps calling me a virus.) Somebody eventually told me about Scroogle

Re: Google and Tor

2009-07-04 Thread Andrew Lewman
to two other email accounts via an 'invite'. So long as this proof continues to hold, I highly doubt google believes in Tor as a tool for good. Those concerned may wish to try a signup. GMail doesn't do this anymore. You can sign up through Tor just fine. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp

Re: Google and Tor

2009-07-04 Thread James Brown
breaking your anonymity and annoyance factor by linking you to two other email accounts via an 'invite'. So long as this proof continues to hold, I highly doubt google believes in Tor as a tool for good. Those concerned may wish to try a signup. I use the gmail within Tor very easy but I

Something Strange Happens to google when Tor is enabled

2006-09-04 Thread Siera Leone
I just started to use Tor with the firefox extention. When the extention is on and I do a Google search wether it's with the search plugin in firefox or going to google.com I get rerouted to google.de which is not in english. I can use the english version of google just fine without the extention

Re: Something Strange Happens to google when Tor is enabled

2006-09-04 Thread Andrea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i think that google have this strange behavior because the search plugin of firefox use this address: www.google.com and this address try to redirect to the google-localized(.de .fr .it) viewing the ip that have requested the page. most of the exit

Re: Something Strange Happens to google when Tor is enabled

2006-09-04 Thread Siera Leone
PROTECTED]To: or-talk@freehaven.netSent: Monday, September 4, 2006 5:17:38 AMSubject: Re: Something Strange Happens to google when Tor is enabled-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1i think that google have this strange behavior because the search pluginof firefox use this address: www.google.com

Re: Something Strange Happens to google when Tor is enabled

2006-09-04 Thread Kelly Byrd
I went directly to www.google.com but the same problem came up. On the Gernan google homepage there is a link to google in english. When I put my mouse over it, the url I will be going to is www.google.com/nrc which redirects me back to google.com. I typed in google.com/nrc and it did the

(FWD) Re: Something Strange Happens to google when Tor is enabled

2006-09-04 Thread Roger Dingledine
(CEST) Subject: Re: Something Strange Happens to google when Tor is enabled From: Alexis Villebrun [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: or-talk@freehaven.net Hi Just modify the searchplugins/google.src like this : input name=q user inputnext name=start factor=10 inputprev + input name=hl value=en