In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to click a "Continue" button after a few seconds, after Google verifies your request.
This new test was spotted by Glenn Gabe who posted a screenshot of this on X and wrote, "Just saw this while searching Google. The "Continue" button was grayed out for a few seconds before turning blue... Yep, they aren't messing around with scraping... They want humans as much as possible."
Here is the screenshot:
So that blue "Continue" button was gray and then turned blue once Google verified you were human.
The previous test looked like this:
Google is really trying multiple methods to block bots from scraping its search results including the new goto redirects, sign in and the old captchas and now this.
This is also being tested in other languages:
3ème page de Google en navigation privée 🙄#antiscraping pic.twitter.com/IKrtZ4KQMM
— Alexis Rylko (@alekseo) September 1, 2026
Forum discussion at X.
