Will this work to bypass google captcha when using VPN?
-
Hi Everyone,
I have a VPN gateway configured on my pfsense through which all of my local traffic exits. Since the VPN service leverages a shared ip this trips google's bot-protection so now whenever I search google I get slapped with an annoying captcha ~60-70% of the time.
To get around this I am wondering if my idea to add a firewall to route all traffic for google through my normal WAN gateway would accomplish two things:
-
Bypass captcha because now my normal ISP allocated ip is being used for the initial google query
-
NOT compromise my privacy still because once I click on a search result, I'm now hitting a non-google domain so technically, that traffic should still route through my VPN gateway.
Is this is a correct approach/understanding? Will I be able to preserve my internet privacy like this or will my ISP still see where I'm browsing to because the initial query was not over VPN?
Thanks!
-
-
@tikiyetti That should work as Google publishes all the IP addresses it uses, and even if some slip through you should get captchas a lot less than you did before.
-
@kom Thanks for the reply!
Would the best/proper way to do this be to create a firewall alias of Type Networks or URL Table (IPs) and add in all the Google ip ranges?
-
@tikiyetti Pretty much. Note that unless you can somehow distinguish what IPs are for which services, you will end up using WAN for ALL Google-related services, not just search.
-
@kom Ahh good point, hadn't thought of that. Thank you for the response. It's much appreciated!!
