Friendly Captcha (another de-G**gle initiative)
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Website: https://friendlycaptcha.com/
GitHub: (for the “server application”) https://github.com/friendlycaptcha/friendly-pow
Wordpress plug-in: https://wordpress.org/plugins/friendly-captcha/Friendly Captcha, the privacy and user-friendly CAPTCHA alternative
Friendly Captcha is a tool for preventing spam on your website
Other CAPTCHAs are a burden on your users, Friendly Captcha respects your users.The most popular CAPTCHA system, Google ReCAPTCHA depends on tracking users and collecting user data across the internet. This is a price that you are forcing your users to pay in order to use your website. They can not opt out.
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@imc67 This is even better than hcaptcha. Thank you!
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Is there any data on how effective this is?
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@ruihildt I just signed up for an account and installed the Wordpress plugin. I'll report back in a few days. Hoping it'll stop those pesky bots from abusing my contact form
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@humptydumpty yes please, let us know how it goes. Might replace the captcha this forum uses.
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@humptydumpty I installed it on a brand new Wordpress site for a first test. It looks promising!
Tomorrow I’ll install it on one of the high traffic sites I manage. Will share my experiences here too.
Meanwhile I translated the plug-in into Dutch and they released a new ‘base’ version with 4 languages.
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Day 1 looks promising! I'm used to waking up to at least a handful of spam messages sent from the contact forms. So far, I got none! Will report back tomorrow.
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@humptydumpty same here!
I also switched on the WP-login captcha but users with a password manager couldn't get in, the entry was too fast
So I switched that of again (we hadn't a captcha before and do have Wordfence login control). -
Day 2 report: No spam from the contact forms yet. I repeat, ZERO spam messages sent so far!
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Looks like POW is not something spammers do until this variant reaches critical mass. Until then, enjoy!
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@humptydumpty we had day 1: 1 spam email and day 2: 0 spam email
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@imc67 still a win in my book!
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Day 3: almost forgot to post today, zero spam all day.
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@humptydumpty it’s getting boring but same here!
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@humptydumpty @imc67 does this work on any site or is this specific to WordPress? Can I use it for this forum, for example?
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@girish yes you can, on their homepage halfway you see a code example for any website. For Wordpress there is an easy to use plug-in.
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@imc67 Indeed, thanks. It seems there is a 1000 requests/month limit which this forum far exceeds... Let me think about it.
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@girish strange, it seems there is something changed on their website. It’s not only looking different but I swear there was something like “use our api or host it on your own server” that’s why I created this app wish. It would be great to host “the API” as an app for your own endpoint. However I don’t see such solution anymore, or maybe I don’t look at the right place?
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@imc67 I think what was opensource was only the libraries and not the server component (I could be wrong). But you are right, there used to a note before - https://web.archive.org/web/20201220025130/https://friendlycaptcha.com/ but it only stated "FriendlyCaptcha is open source allowing you to build out this service yourself."
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@girish right! But is that still possible with the code on GitHub?
