Friendly Captcha (another de-G**gle initiative)
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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
@humptydumpty I installed it on a brand new Wordpress site for a first test. It looks promising!
Tomorrow Iāll 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 ābaseā 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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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.
@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!
@humptydumpty we had day 1: 1 spam email and day 2: 0 spam email
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@humptydumpty we had day 1: 1 spam email and day 2: 0 spam email
@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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Day 3: almost forgot to post today, zero spam all day.
@humptydumpty itās 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.
@girish strange, it seems there is something changed on their website. Itās not only looking different but I swear there was something like āuse our api or host it on your own serverā thatās why I created this app wish. It would be great to host āthe APIā as an app for your own endpoint. However I donāt see such solution anymore, or maybe I donāt look at the right place?
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@girish strange, it seems there is something changed on their website. Itās not only looking different but I swear there was something like āuse our api or host it on your own serverā thatās why I created this app wish. It would be great to host āthe APIā as an app for your own endpoint. However I donāt see such solution anymore, or maybe I donāt look at the right place?
@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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@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 @imc67 Quoting a closed issue on their github...
Hi, after doing a bit of research, I've realized that FriendlyCaptcha isn't entirely open source. Alternatively, do it yourself FriendlyCaptcha is open source allowing you to build out this service yourself. https://friendlycaptcha.com/ Its front-end and algorithms are open source (MIT), the SaaS wrapper around the hosted version is not [yet, I set it as a sponsorship goal], I hope thatās ok. https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/issues/133 I will appreciate if the website makes it clear that some bits are proprietary.Source: https://github.com/FriendlyCaptcha/friendly-challenge/issues/10
I think that means someone could use a different wrapper for their source code and make it work for Cloudron and elsewhere, right?
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