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@@ -121,10 +121,14 @@ The browser is shared and belongs to a person. Worth being aware of: in the search engine's account history if that profile is signed in. - Tabs open and close on someone's screen. `background: true` keeps them from stealing focus, but they are visible. -- Searching hard trips rate limiters for the whole host — a handful of queries in - a few seconds is enough to earn a challenge that affects the human using that - browser too. Measured on Google: roughly 30 queries in a few minutes cost about - 90 minutes of blocking. Brave challenges considerably sooner than that. +- Searching hard trips rate limiters for the whole host, and the challenge + affects the human using that browser too. Measured during development: + **Google** tolerated a lot, then roughly 30 queries in a few minutes cost about + 90 minutes of blocking. **Brave** is far stricter — it challenges after as few + as one or two queries and clears again in roughly 15–20 minutes. **DuckDuckGo** + and **Bing** never challenged once across the whole of development, which is + why DuckDuckGo is the one to reach for when you need to run several searches + in a row. - **A decaying block does not look like a block.** Once the challenge page stops being served, engines return an *empty results page* for a while instead — indistinguishable from a query with no hits. It surfaces as `NoResultsError`, |