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Google Unusual Traffic when on Mobile date

Sharpy666
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Are you aware of the Google search captcha has been appearing on your mobile network for the past 3 days when trying to perform Google searches? Says:

Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network”

 

You can complete the captcha and it continues to work, but you are repeatedly asked throughout the day. 

 

Connecting to WiFi - not on the O2 network - Google captcha disappears immediately?

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Tends to happen when many queries hit the same "bit" of Google in a short time - such as all users in a mast location being routed to the same Google server, @Sharpy666,  4th bullet below:
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Thank you.

It’s bean happen all week. At home and at work 20 miles apart
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I have googled it now and seem to be happening to lots of different people of lots of different net work
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@Sharpy666 wrote:
I have googled it now and seem to be happening to lots of different people of lots of different net work

Yes, when I am researching something, I often make lots of very tailored Google searches - I will inevitably get the captcha perhaps one search in 8 or so.

 

Could also be something Google is tweaking on their side... Fact of life, I guess, @Sharpy666

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But it happen to me when I google BBC.
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It's been happening on iPhones for the past month or so, since an iOS update, but Google updated their apps and it seems to have stopped now.
Check all your Google apps are up to date.
I have no affiliation whatsoever with O2 or any subsidiary companies. Comments posted are entirely of my own opinion. This is not Customer Service so we are unable to help with account specific issues.

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Pixel 7a (O2 & Lyca), One Plus 6 (Sfr), iPhone 12 Pro Max (Vodafone)
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