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  • January 13, 2025
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https://downdetector.com/status/recaptcha/
According to this, seems like there's a big ReCAPTCHA outage. 

My own site, which was working fine and untouched, broke today. 
I'm trying to figure out if this is a real outage, something google changed without telling anyone, or if it's actually a "me" issue. 

Any insight would be appreciated!

Update: This issue fixed itself!

Best answer by amitair

Hi!

I replied also in another thread - we had a temporary issue with V2 *test keys* and only the test key (the one in our documentation, not the one you would create in you product environments).

We've since deployed a fix, and you should see it within a few hours at the most.

Amitai
Product Manager, reCAPTCHA

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  • January 13, 2025

Hi!

I replied also in another thread - we had a temporary issue with V2 *test keys* and only the test key (the one in our documentation, not the one you would create in you product environments).

We've since deployed a fix, and you should see it within a few hours at the most.

Amitai
Product Manager, reCAPTCHA


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  • January 13, 2025

Hi!

I replied also in another thread - we had a temporary issue with V2 *test keys* and only the test key (the one in our documentation, not the one you would create in you product environments).

We've since deployed a fix, and you should see it within a few hours at the most.

Amitai
Product Manager, reCAPTCHA


Thank you for the reply. So sounds like there's no known issue for production ReCAPTCHA.
Do you know why the outage rates are spiking? I don't think the down detector page is for test keys. 
Was there any changes to ReCAPTCHA today that might cause an outage on my site? No recent changes were made on my end. 
I started get "invalid-input-response" for v2 tickbox. Spent the day switching to v3 and still getting "invalid-input-response". Bit stumped. 


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  • January 13, 2025

For the record, whatever messed up my recaptcha (production keys), fixed itself. 
Wasted day, but at least I can log off without worry!