Google’s “Sorry” Page: The Unintentional Playground for Tor and VPN Users
Frequent flyers on the Tor Browser or VPN expressway know the Google “sorry” page all too well. Now, with a cryptic twist, it features byte gibberish after your IP. While it’s no ticket to HTML hackery, it’s a curious carnival of encoding. Say hello to Google’s new puzzle, now in a byte-sized format!
Hot Take:
Google’s “Sorry” page is feeling a bit philosophical these days, throwing in a mystery byte string that’s more cryptic than your grandma’s email password. It’s like Google’s trying to say, “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed” in binary!
Key Points:
- Google’s “Sorry” page for Tor users has a new cryptic feature: a string of nonsense bytes.
- The mysterious bytes are encoded in the ?q URL query parameter and follow the client IP address.
- While you can’t execute XSS, you can customize the byte string’s length and content.
- This change might be related to some IP address comparison debugging code.
- The page still supports multiple languages, but HTML escaping is consistent across all versions.
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