I’ve been happily using Brave Browser for six or seven years now, and switched to Brave Search upon its first availability. It’s been working fine all along, until today, when suddenly I’ve been presented with a CAPTCHA to complete before each search — and the CAPTCHA is impossible to complete. What…

Brave search unavailable to VPN users is a deal breaker. fix immediately and apologize or its goodbye Brave hello Firefox.

Same thing here. Doesn’t work with ProtonVPN anymore… If I can’t use Brave Search with a VPN I’ll switch to an alternative (Browser + search engine). Please fix this.

Thanks for reporting, reviewing. Which VPN do you use? Anyone experiencing this willing to hop in a Brave Talk link to troubleshoot?

We’ve just deployed a change that should fix the issue. Can you confirm you’re no longer experiencing?

Works for me! (ProtonVPN on Linux) Thanks for the quick fix!

A ha. You pushed a breaking change on us by mistake, and have fixed it now because of complaints. This is what complaining is for. Thanks a lot. You still need to fix those CAPTCHAs, though. Being required to complete a CAPTCHA is considerably more frustrating when completing the CAPTCHA is impossi…

I just started experiencing this problem today. Without VPN use. Very much a deal breaker for me.

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I have a different problem, which I hope you can fix. I want to open a new wallet, but the New Wallet screen doesn’t appear when I press the wallet icon, only says unlock or restore. Can you help me with this matter?

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Brave Search Now Suddenly Unusable Due To CAPTCHAs

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