Comment by KomoD
1 day ago
archive.today doesn't use a real recaptcha, the cloudflare page isn't real either. it serves that as a punishment for using 1.1.1.1 DNS because the owner doesn't like that 1.1.1.1 doesn't send EDNS client subnets.
1 day ago
archive.today doesn't use a real recaptcha, the cloudflare page isn't real either. it serves that as a punishment for using 1.1.1.1 DNS because the owner doesn't like that 1.1.1.1 doesn't send EDNS client subnets.
They're definitely trying to mimic the cloudflare captcha page, but...
>archive.today doesn't use a real recaptcha
How? It's loading the script from google, and the images/responses are from google to.
I recall that the 1.1.1.1 block page doesn't serve the real one,, but the challenge page that they serve normally does. Maybe I'm misremembering? or maybe they changed it.
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?
> 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...
It is telling that HN moderators allow links to archive.is/today