On Thu, 9 Jan 2025, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
I'm using Elinks regularly from a server located in a data center. Until
recently, with no problem. But now, they have blocked the access from my
IP address due to the lack of javascript, and the posibility to prove
that I'm a human and not a robot. I've not found any email address or
contact form that let me contact Google to remove my IP address from
their block list.
This can be a problem with accessing from hosted servers, as you are
somewhat at the mercy of what others may have done with your IP address
before you, or what others with addresses in the same block are currently
doing.
I hate to be one of those people who say to use something else, but I also
recommend using DuckDuckGo. I've found Google's search to be frustrating
when you specify several terms and it decides not to match against all of
them.
When using DuckDuckGo with lynx, it redirects to
https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite which has a nice clean minimalist
interface.
Do you have any suggestions for how to resolve this problem? Is it
possible to run orca remotely, so that I can run Firefox from the
server, just to access Google and prove that I'm a human, in hope that
this will remove the IP address? Do you have other tips?
If you really want to resolve the IP block and you have Firefox set up
locally, you could forward a port on your SSH connection and access it
with your local Firefox.
Example:
ssh -L 8443:google.com:443 <yourserver>
Then once you've logged in to the remote server, you can connect to
localhost:8443 with your local Firefox.
Of course, you can use whichever port you want for the local port, so long
as nothing else is already using it.
HTH,
Geoff.
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