Thank you! You wrote: > 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. [...] > 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. Thank you. I didn't know about that. I've used elinks with URL shortcuts. That way, DuckDuckGo don't work very well. When I come to a search result, I cannot open it directly by selecting the link in Elinks. > > 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. I tried both, with and without https:// in front of localhost, but I was not able to go to google. I f I in Firefox tried localhost:<port>/search?q=<something>, I got 404 error from Firefox. Lars To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.