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 <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2026 3:49 PM To: North American Network Operators Group <[email protected]> Cc: Chris <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EC > BKHASYMABWJ7QVL35FFAHNX2KZ633F/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OCJWQCUYPKL774CN45LNZXGLNUUR3V7W/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MAK3DLUKL4OT2FS622KIK4I3FKMVYSD4/
