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Comment by bbarnett

3 days ago

I have noticed a massive uptick in the number of captcha requests from Google, in normal searches, when you use udm=14. They repeatedly categorize you as a bot.

The tech in me says, maybe lots of bots/AI/trainers are using udm=14 to make scraping easier. The cynic says, Google wants to punish udm=14, non-profitable users.

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