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0 pointstheamk1y ago0 comments

legacy Cloudflare captchas?

I thought they eliminated them back in 2023? Their announcement is pretty clear on them:

"Cloudflare will never issue another visual puzzle to anyone, for any reason."

https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-ga/

Are you sure it's not fake? For example archive.is sometimes sends me orange-colored CAPTCHAs (with "select all the boxes" style) that are never accepted; but if one looks closer at them, it actually never says "cloudflare" on them anywhere, nor there is a logo (it does this because it has a long-standing feud with cloudflare re users' privacy).

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pixelesque1y ago

I thought they had as well, which was why I was surprised to see them.

I can't remember the site I saw them on, so I don't know for certain, but the site was definitely protected by Cloudflare, and I'm not really sure what you mean by "fake" - they were definitely CAPTCHAs with image tiles, but I guess I don't know for certain they were coming from Cloudflare servers.

theamkOP1y ago

How did you know they were Cloudflare and not some other service? Was there a "cloudflare" word or their logo?

HCaptcha is still a thing, it has "find all dogs": https://developers.nopecha.com/recognition/hcaptcha/

I get flagged by Google's reCaptcha all the time, it's super annoying: https://developers.nopecha.com/recognition/recaptcha/

Archive.is made their own check page (probably based on HCaptcha), which uses same color scheme as cloudflare and same general design.. except if you look closely, you'll notice there is no word "cloudflare" anywhere on page, it's a homegrown solution: https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/18c3ea7/...

For some weird reason, people like to attribute every captcha to cloudflare, even if they no longer offer this service...

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