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Sir Tigger KC · 28 January 2019, 09:09:23

I was doing a spot of 'Googling' the other night and suddenly got a page telling me that there was unusual activity on my account and the reCAPTCHA thing popped up and I had to pick out all the shopfronts to prove I wasn't a robot. $:-\$

It's never happened to me before and I wasn't signed into Google as far as I know. $:-\$

Has this happened to anyone else?

Should I expect a knock on the door late one night?

Varche · 28 January 2019, 09:36:08

GCHQ will have been monitoring an orange and black striped wig wearing fellow from Dorset for some months now.

Gaffers · 28 January 2019, 10:32:51

Do you use a web-based proxy service?

tunnie · 28 January 2019, 11:35:35

Used to happen at work a lot, due to a lot of activity from one address.

As Gaffers suggests, if you use a proxy that could do it.

It's basically triggered when Google gets hammered from a single location.

Sir Tigger KC · 28 January 2019, 12:30:29

Quote from: Gaffers on 28 January 2019, 10:32:51
Do you use a web-based proxy service?

Eh?

I was using mobile data from 3 tethered to my laptop. $:-\$

It was all Brexit related stuff so maybe Varche is right and if I disappear.....

TheBoy · 28 January 2019, 17:30:31

It'll be 3. Don't worry too much about it.

It can happen a fair bit on national wifi providers and mobile, due to high churn of addresses, although 3 seem to be suffering a bit more than some currently... ...but should still only be once in a blue moon.

STEMO · 28 January 2019, 17:50:55

When I switch my iPad on, it obviously takes a minute to find my location. Fair enough. But I was surprised the other morning when, about two minutes after I started it, the BBC weather app showed my location as Bamako.

Sir Tigger KC · 28 January 2019, 18:27:08

Quote from: STEMO on 28 January 2019, 17:50:55
When I switch my iPad on, it obviously takes a minute to find my location. Fair enough. But I was surprised the other morning when, about two minutes after I started it, the BBC weather app showed my location as Bamako.

What was the weather like?

Kevin Wood · 28 January 2019, 18:42:53

Quote from: Sir Tigger QC on 28 January 2019, 18:27:08
Quote from: STEMO on 28 January 2019, 17:50:55
When I switch my iPad on, it obviously takes a minute to find my location. Fair enough. But I was surprised the other morning when, about two minutes after I started it, the BBC weather app showed my location as Bamako.

What was the weather like?

I'll ask my father-in-law. He's likely to say that the weather is the least of your worries, though.

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