RE: Hey Google - Recaptcha sucks

[Gary Sparkes via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Hilariously, it didn't at first. I forgot I was on an IPv6 only network for a second wondering if it was supposed to be 
a real page or not before doing an nslookup on it. 

That out of the way, I would strongly suspect the airport network of faulting/interfering with the traffic first before 
google issues, because reCAPTCHA (while still a google product/service) by nature usually 'just works' in almost every 
supported browser today, and has to for adoption/usage purposes. 

If it were a firefox issue, there would be a whole lot more noise going around about it, but in this case, it seems 
very location/network specific. I suspect cellular tether or a different network would not have had the same issue at 
the time this occurred. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> 
Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2026 3:49 PM
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog () lists nanog org>
Cc: Chris <nanog () hrcommunications net>
Subject: Re: Hey Google - Recaptcha sucks

On 2026-02-05 12:06, William Herrin via NANOG wrote:
> I'm at SEATAC airport trying to access www.google.com via the public 
> wifi with Firefox. Apparently you really don't like that because it's 
> stuck in a Recaptcha loop displaying captcha after captcha after 
> captcha.
>
> I can't help but notice that Chrome works. It's your _competitor_ 
> Firefox that you don't seem to like.
Browser bigotry. Always a treat.
My interpretation; we're too cheap to hire real developers. So we just test with the browser that's on the system we're 
making this thing on.
does https://thestart.page work for you?

> IP address: 198.134.98.50
> Time: 2026-02-05T20:03:35Z
> URL: https://www.google.com/
>
> FIx it, eh?
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
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