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

Sarah Alawami marrie12 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 01:44:40 UTC 2016


Well I found what I was looking for for someone when I got off the tor proxi. It was a link to mp3 gain they needed for mac. And that's what I was doing a google search for at the time.

Blessings and happy Monday
> On Jun 6, 2016, at 5:27 PM, Kevin <kevinsisco61784 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure what google has against tor.
> 
> 
> On 6/6/2016 7:03 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>> Oh good, I'm not theeonly one seeing the error then. Well I guess I will have to not do my google searches when using the tor network then I guess. I use the proxi method of tor so yeah glad it fails to on the tor browser. Well, nt glad, but glad I'm not feeling like I'm going crazy.
>>> On Jun 6, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Kevin <kevinsisco61784 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Well I tried it and it gives me that error.  It seems that google is blocking tor.  At least that's how it seems to me.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 6/6/2016 4:10 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>> I can try it out, but if it is not accessible to me using voiceover that won't work at all.
>>>> 
>>>> I'll look into it later. Right now I'm trying to write some documentation on something I'm designing, and I just came up for air for a bit.
>>>> 
>>>> Blessings and happy Monday
>>>>> On Jun 6, 2016, at 11:37 AM, Cecilia Tanaka <cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 6, 2016 1:47 AM, "Sarah Alawami" <marrie12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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 didn't
>>>>> know tor blocked google searches.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi, Sarah.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Until I know  - and I know almost nothing, sorry! -  Tor doesn't block
>>>>> Google resources and Google's official position about Tor Project is:
>>>>> 
>>>>> "Google is not doing anything intentionally specifically to deter or block
>>>>> Tor use."
>>>>> 
>>>>> Just for curiosity, try to use Duck Duck Go instead Google for making your
>>>>> searches when using Tor, please.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It is pretty cute and some of their collaborators are amazing people.
>>>>> Happy "quack quack" experience for you!  :-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Have a lovely day!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cecilia
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