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I am also on Proton VPN. 2 days ago Google search wouldn't allow me to search at all because it couldn't confirm my age.
I switched to a different server and it worked, but that shouldn't have made a difference, since I was sigbed into the same google account.
Strangely enough, this happened about 30 ish hours after I started self hosting my own searxng.
Sites will block content or require age verification by state, so if you're connected to a VPN server located in one of those states you'll see stuff like that.
The server I am connected to was in Canada. Its the same server I almost always connect to. If I am not connected to that one, I am connected to one in my home state for speed. My state does not require age verification to ask google what Showtime's the nearest movie theater has.
Was the different server in another state?