ReCaptcha Test Key stopped working

[llxxvii27]

Hi everyone, 

I noticed the ReCaptcha test key seems to stop working this morning, is this a known issue or down time?

[jferg]

Yes, we're seeing this too.

[zack_dunning]

We're seeing the same thing with this key.

[KyleWilliams]

Ditto to the above, seeing this as well

[KyleAckermann]

We are having the same issue with the keys

[patrickjpoconne]

Finally found I'm not the only one experiencing this. No idea if this is being addressed yet.

[m0nae]

We're having this issue too

[amitair · Accepted solution]

Hi everyone!

Amitai here from the reCAPTCHA team. So sorry for this - it is a bug on our side. A fix is rolling out as we speak and you should see this error resolved within a few hours at the latest. If it isn't by tonight (USA time), please let us know!

Apologies about the issue.

[tswaters]

This might be a bit of canary in the coal mine.  Encountered this myself and ended up looking for where/how the recaptcha is setup and realized we missed a notice notifying us of needing to migrate from recaptcha classic to recaptcha enterprise.

Well, once the migration is done (project created, etc.) there's an option to create a test key which shows the same behavior as the test public/private key used to use.  ("This reCAPTCHA is for testing purposes only. Please report to the site admin if you are seeing this.")

There's also this page:  https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/reCAPTCHA-Enterprise/Classic-reCAPTCHA-Gets-a-Modern-Upgrade... --

which states, "By the end of 2025 all Google reCAPTCHA keys will be associated with a Google Cloud project" ... if I were to guess, the test site got turfed before it should have.  But really, you can create test keys under your own project.