Lately, when I bring up Google on my iphone, I get this message:

[ailsagirl]

About this page

This network is blocked due to unaddressed abuse complaints about malicious behavior. This page checks to see if it's really a human sending the requests and not a robot coming from this network.
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Has this happened to anyone else? Is there something I need to do?

Thanks in advance!

[House of Roberts]

1. I have a Google 'button' among my choices on my iPhone

but I never use it. Safari seems to do everything I want.

[ailsagirl]

2. Hmmm

[multigraincracker]

3. I use DuckDuckGo.

[usonian]

4. You might have a neighbor whose computer got malware and is part of a botnet.

Or router. Some have recently been hacked.

They would be on your same general network if you are on wifi and cable.

Google's hacker protection software probably just looks at the network numbers your isp handed out rather than each device on it.

See if switching to cellular only changes anything. Might run up your phone data charges if data is limited.

PS I never use Google. They track all your searches, never forget, and gleefully sell the data to anyone.

[ailsagirl]

9. Thank you

😎

[sunflowerseed]

10. What do you use

Duck duck go sucks!! Wish a dem billionaire would start up a better service.

[usonian]

12. My feedback to DDG is not repeatable here.

I'll be "private search engine" shopping shortly.

I searched for "wheel of karma" --- I meant "wheel of samsara" and the Duck shit this out.

[ailsagirl]

5. Sorry-- I should just have Googled it... n/t

[usonian]

6. You and I are never the first to run into a problem.

https://www.lifewire.com/unusual-traffic-from-computer-network-errors-3968165

People beat us to the problems and speak out.

But this great info may not solve your problem.

🍀🍀Good luck getting it fixed. 🍀🍀

[Nictuku]

7. This could be a scam! BEWARE

I fell for it once, and then something didn't seem right. I was just browsing RawStory. Apparently the scammers purchase pop up ads that look like CAPTCHA tests (Are you a Robot?).. Hopefully you didn't give any information. Here are a few articles on this new scam:

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/fake-captcha-websites-hijack-your-clipboard-to-install-information-stealers
https://www.montclair.edu/phish-files/2025/03/07/fake-captcha-scams/
https://guard.io/blog/captcha-scam
https://cyberguy.com/security/captcha-catastrophe-fake-verification-pages-spreading-malware/
https://blog.avast.com/fakecaptcha-scams


Hope these help, pass the word. We have to look out for each other in this scam-ridden world.

[usonian]

11. Agree. Other than the usual "eye exam" (I hate them) never give out any information. n/t

[John1956PA]

8. I got a phishing popup on my laptop. I right-clicked it and selected "Block."

The popup warned of over-the-top bad things which were happening to my laptop because hackers had breached it. I laughed of the absurdity of that doom-and gloom scare scam. There is usually a simple way to block those phishing pop-ups.

Maybe somehow you can block that particular phishing pop-up from appearing on your phone.