site breaks with nordvpn

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constantly getting the "press and hold" captcha while using NordVPN ... adblock is off and javascript is enabled

please fix

error id: ea11e170-4d68-11eb-a858-416534b42a6f

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SA Admin Kushal Mehrotra
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Update from our team:

"Hi, it looks like we were blocking them for trying to spoof the google crawler as they're providing the User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) We can tell that they're not an actual Google crawler and NordVPN should not cause User Agents to change to that"

Regards,
Kushal Mehrotra
Data QA Analyst, Seeking Alpha

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SA Admin Kushal Mehrotra
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  • Not a bug

Update from our team:

"Hi, it looks like we were blocking them for trying to spoof the google crawler as they're providing the User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) We can tell that they're not an actual Google crawler and NordVPN should not cause User Agents to change to that"

Regards,
Kushal Mehrotra
Data QA Analyst, Seeking Alpha

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SA Admin Kushal Mehrotra
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Thanks for the feedback, I'll relay the same to our concerned team.

Regards,
Kushal Mehrotra
Data QA Analyst, Seeking Alpha