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forestotoday at 12:42 AM1 replyview on HN

What do you mean by "a real recaptcha"? I just went to an archive.is page, and it's trying to load a script from www.google.com. Doesn't Google still own reCAPTCHA?


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selcukatoday at 1:06 AM

> On 14 January 2026, it emerged that archive.today had silently modified its CAPTCHA page to send repeated requests to Gyrovague, thereby causing visitors to unwittingly contribute to a DDOS attack against the blog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#2026_attack_on_G...

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