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

[Not Friendly]

On 2016-06-06 13:19, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> 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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Is it absolutely necessary that you use Google? Can't you use Startpage 
or DuckDuckGo instead? The the idea of sending a letter was a 
suggestion. I was stating it due to the fact that your origional email 
sounded like you were asking why the Tor Project blocks Google (which 
again they don't) (Google rate limits Tor).

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