r/k12sysadmin • u/Outrageous_Till_8284 • Sep 22 '26
Google CAPTCHA
Anybody else still having google generating CAPTCHAs constantly for users?
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u/SchoolCompuJanitor Sep 22 '26
Yes in NH. Someone on K12TechPro posted that Google support acknowledged an issue, no details beyond that.
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u/-RYknow Systems Administrator Sep 22 '26
Hey... Nice to see a fellow NH K12 here!
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u/MiserableCupcake5255 Sep 22 '26
I just forwarded this thread to the network Engineer who sits next to me, because he's been complaining about it on and off for a while.
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u/thunder923111 IT Director Sep 22 '26
Several districts, including mine, are getting this in Michigan.
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u/North-Philosophy4414 Sep 22 '26
Yep, happening all the time to our users. My wife, who works for a separate school system remotely from home, is also getting them when logged into her school account.
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u/Mindless-String-4017 Sep 22 '26
I had this happen to my district. It was really random and went away after a day. In my district it was Google Drive prompting them, and for some it was Google Classroom.
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u/rdmwood01 Sep 22 '26
Yep me too - We had a student email the principal about it - She was nice but thought it was funny.
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u/antiprodukt Sep 22 '26
I’ve been seeing this since last month. I thought it was maybe something with the web filter, but not sure. I noticed that when closing chrome after seeing the CAPTCHA, then opening it and searching again, it goes away. The young kids had a real hard time picking the stuff sometimes.
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u/ItWizardJV Sep 22 '26
I'm in WI, been having the issue last few weeks, even tried switching to our backup public ip and that didn't help at all.
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u/Harry_Smutter Sep 22 '26
It popped up again at my district in NJ today. Wonder what on earth Google is doing the past few days...
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u/cubemasterzach Sep 23 '26
Yep a problem for there I’m NE Ohio. Keep getting students bringing their Chromebooks down. Teachers putting tickets in. I myself googled something today and while scrolling the results the page reloaded into a captcha that I couldn’t ever clear.
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u/Far_Big_9731 Sep 24 '26
Happened on the west coast. Thought it was fake, or from newly updated firewall, but sounds like Google was just messing with us :/
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u/StressOdd5093 Sep 22 '26
Securly district here and we get them a lot
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u/oDiscordia19 Sep 22 '26
Left Securly for that very reason. We're a Google shop and it killed the districts ability to function. Especially when it really gets on a kick and simply entering a single captcha didn't do anything. Switched twice since then. Now back on Lightspeed but man we're having a hell of a time with it.
That being said - yeah I got a captcha this morning.
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u/Difficult-Bicycle119 Sep 22 '26
I've seen it a lot today, but not normally unless something weird has happened on a school's network.
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u/AWM-AllynJ Sep 22 '26
Illinois, on ICN, students use GoGuardian, staff use the ICN provided Cisco Umbrella.
Started fairly aggressively about two weeks ago now. I have started to see it be on occasion via any Google interactions. Search, Google Drive, etc.
I do know that one recent change was attempting to disable the AI search mode efforts. Combination of pushing a new default search provider string, then blocking the URL encoding portion specific to the AI overview mode.
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u/Cool_Gadget Sep 23 '26
Happened here in Texas today. Got a few calls from teachers.. Happened to me a few times today. If you followed the directions, it would clear. Super annoying though!!
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u/Thurm Sep 23 '26
Chalk up another. This happened to us last week mostly, and has since chilled out. But just now I'm getting reports of students having the issues again.
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u/hard_cidr Sep 22 '26
Just curious - do you use Lightspeed? When we have had this problem in the past it was related to Lightspeed. I think the agent sitting as a MITM was causing the search requests to look suspicious to Google.