Retirement of Google reCAPTCHA classic (migration to reCAPTCHA enterprise by the end of 2025)

[jamesmacwhite]

What are you trying to do?

Google has recently begun to notify those who are using reCAPTCHA classic. It seems Google is retiring and merging the non-enterprise solution, where by you can create reCAPTCHA keys without using Google Cloud Console, this is going to be mandatory by the end of 2025 and existing keys would need to be migrated to Google Cloud Console to continue working.

More information on the changes which has been sent by Google via email: https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha/docs/migrate-recaptcha

At the moment there is no immediate action, you can technically migrate early, but Google appears to doing the migration in phases and there is time to plan and review changes.

Because of the changes to the service, it appears to also have impact on the API and functionality in Formie to some extent, it appears everything is moving under reCAPTCHA enterprise per: https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha/docs/using-features, various calls for the non-enterprise service are being replaced with the enterprise counter parts.

According to the documentation if you are below 10,000 reCAPTCHA requests per month, the service remains free to use despite moving to enterprise.

What's your proposed solution?

• Documentation updates for Google reCAPTCHA
• API updates for moving to Google reCAPTCHA enterprise
• Any testing required under the new/migrated setup.

Additional context

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[engram-design]

Thanks for this, I'll delve into the migration process. Fortunately, we do currently support reCAPTCHA Enterprise at the moment with Formie.

[jamesmacwhite]

Thanks Josh. It might be just a case of in the long term merging the classic settings with enterprise, or offering a migration path to move non enterprise integrations to enterprise. The only factor is the keys need to be migrated onto Google Cloud first to function, but there's time to plan it, given the deadline is end of 2025.