Close reCAPTCHA account/trasnfer over to a different Google account

[James Townsend]

Hi
Does anyone know how to close their account or transfer it over to
another Google account? I have created a new Google account to keep my
gmail account seperate to my new business account and would like to
trasnfer/close the reCAPTCHA account and the reopen on the new Google
account

thanks in advance
James

[P JH]

Simply get the new account to regenerate a set of keys for the site(s) concerned, and change the site source to use the new ones. Multiple accounts may register the same sites - it only matters (in as much as such things actually do matter) which generated set is actually used. For example I have a set of keys for the literal domain example.com in my account - they're only actually useful if I ever get to the position whereby I'd - personally- be putting a recaptcha on http://www.example.com.

There's no facility to delete/disable old keys.

(This whole question used to be a FAQ, but it doesn't seem to have made it to the google.com site, and the old FAQ seems to have been hacked, with a suitable version unavailable on archive.org)

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PJH

[reCAPTCHA Support]

We've recently added a page that lets you delete unused keys yourself.

Go to http://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin/ and log into your
account. Click on a site, then click "Delete these keys", then click
"Yes" on the confirmation page.

Please *make sure* that you picked the right set of keys -- once you
delete the keys, any sites that use those keys will stop working, and
there's no way that we or anyone else can undelete them.

Best,
The reCAPTCHA Team

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[P JH]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:47 PM, reCAPTCHA Support <sup...@recaptcha.net> wrote:

Please *make sure* that you picked the right set of keys -- once you
delete the keys, any sites that use those keys will stop working, and
there's no way that we or anyone else can undelete them.

Presumably a /new/ set of keys may be generated and applied however? (i.e. if you still have access to the site code, the situation can be recovered and recaptcha's re-enabled.)

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PJH

[reCAPTCHA Support]

Yes, if you have control over the site you can always switch to a new
set of keys.

Best,
The reCAPTCHA Team

[P JH]

Ta. Just wanted it made specific for the programmers out there watching.

 

Is there any upcoming provision to reinstate the lost FAQs for the lost site? (like the one that prompted this question.) Any feedback mechanism to update it?

 

The last was a wiki, which provided this inherently - I do understand that since Google took it over that a wiki is probably not the most appropriate mechanism, however is there any way the people who answer the stuff that's asked can provide some much needed input? ("We had this Q before, we created an FAQ for it. Can we have it back?")

 

Beyond google/recaptcha staff monitoring this group that is. Monitors, while occasionally useful (I seem to recall 2 twats getting banned pretty sharpish when I pointed them out, and the obvious interventions such as this), aren't (I hope you'll forgive me) the best arbitrators for what should be in the most prominent documentation that ends up in a google search for 'recaptcha delete keys'.

sin ceras ....

PJH

[ADD]

Hi there,

The link no longer works, and the current admin console UI doesn't have anyway to delete unused keys. (Not to my knowledge at least)