[tor-talk] doing a google search creates a 403 forbidden when I'm on the tor network

Sarah Alawami marrie12 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 6 17:19:08 UTC 2016


I'm no lawyer, I'll let someone else deal with this. But I thought I'd let someone on the list who  might be better at letter writing than I know.

Blessings and happy Monday
> On Jun 6, 2016, at 8:49 AM, Not Friendly <notfriendly at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> On 2016-06-06 00:46, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>> Hello to all. I was just on the tor network and launched google to do
>> a google search. I got a 403 forbidden when trying to search for
>> something. I know this might not be fixable, but Can this at least be
>> noted somewhere? Here is the contents of the error.
>> 403. That’s an error.
>> Your client does not have permission to get URL
>> /sorry/IndexRedirect?continue=https://www.google.com/search%3Fclient%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26q%3Dmp3%2Bgain%2Bfor%2Bosx%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8&q=CGMSBAWHnmUY_fTTugUiGQDxp4NLCsckqwDOkyn9Xh-kSLm_OFC-oYE
>> from this server.  That’s all we know.
>> I dunno if this will help, as that's all I know at this time. I didn't
>> know tor blocked google searches.
>> Take care and have a happy Sunday to all.
> Whileas I am not a developer nor member of the Tor Project I will say that tor has not and will not censor their network. You can place the blame and submit your complaints to Google for blocking Tor. Using any search engine you are able to find the address of their headquarters and write them a letter. The Tor Project is unable to control Google's actions Since Google is blocking Tor users it's not Tor blocking Google.
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