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How to deal with Google IP Blocking against my SFO VPS?

Posted on May 17, 2015
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I use shadowsocks to browse websites banned by Chinese gov through my VPS at SFO. However, I cannot access regular google search. The warning goes as follows:

We’re sorry…

… but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.

What should I do?

PS: I can use scholar.google.com. And I have enabled ipv6.

there is another question like this one: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-deal-with-google-scholar-ip-blocking-against-sfo-vps



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This question was answered by @jesin:

Your Droplet’s IP address may have been used by a spammer previously. Why not delete and spin up a new Droplet in another location.

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