Searches blocked by captchas and verification with a VPN
Searches stall on verification or captcha pages and get blocked when the user runs a VPN, uses private mode, or has a flagged IP.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
16 public reports · first reported 29 April 2020 · last reported 6 September 2026
What's going wrong
Firefox users who run a VPN, use private browsing, or share an address that was flagged report that the search add-on stalls on a verification step, shows repeated captcha checks, or blocks searches entirely for days.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 16 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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