Archive.Today starting to use Google’s QR-based reCaptcha
#recaptcha #degoogle #datahoarder
The site has a few variant domains, unsure why, and archive.md, the one I’d been using, threw the QR reCaptcha just now, as per the attached image, while archive.today directly threw the good ol’ “try to verify a dozen times” version.
The recaptcha may appear even when the user is not using a VPN if it grows suspicious, meaning the site may soon be inaccessible without bending to Google.
I’m mostly referring to the 2026 which aren’t just “shitty moves”, but straight up illegal.
They falsified archived information and inserted the name of a person they did not like.
And also, used their websites users as a kind of botnet to DDoS the other website.