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    • imc67
      imc67 translator last edited by

      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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      • humptydumpty
        humptydumpty @imc67 last edited by

        @imc67 This is even better than hcaptcha. Thank you!

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        • ruihildt
          ruihildt @humptydumpty last edited by

          Is there any data on how effective this is?

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          • humptydumpty
            humptydumpty @ruihildt last edited by

            @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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            • girish
              girish Staff @humptydumpty last edited by

              @humptydumpty yes please, let us know how it goes. Might replace the captcha this forum uses.

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              • imc67
                imc67 translator @humptydumpty last edited by

                @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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                • humptydumpty
                  humptydumpty last edited by

                  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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                  • imc67
                    imc67 translator @humptydumpty last edited by

                    @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).

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                    • humptydumpty
                      humptydumpty last edited by

                      Day 2 report: No spam from the contact forms yet. I repeat, ZERO spam messages sent so far!

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                      • robi
                        robi last edited by

                        Looks like POW is not something spammers do until this variant reaches critical mass. Until then, enjoy!

                        Life of Gratitude.
                        Life of Advanced Technology

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                        • imc67
                          imc67 translator @humptydumpty last edited by

                          @humptydumpty we had day 1: 1 spam email and day 2: 0 spam email 🙂

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                          • humptydumpty
                            humptydumpty @imc67 last edited by

                            @imc67 still a win in my book!

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                            • humptydumpty
                              humptydumpty last edited by

                              Day 3: almost forgot to post today, zero spam all day.

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                              • imc67
                                imc67 translator @humptydumpty last edited by

                                @humptydumpty it’s getting boring but same here!

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                                • girish
                                  girish Staff last edited by

                                  @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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                                  • imc67
                                    imc67 translator @girish last edited by

                                    @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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                                    • girish
                                      girish Staff @imc67 last edited by

                                      @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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                                      • imc67
                                        imc67 translator @girish last edited by

                                        @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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                                        • girish
                                          girish Staff @imc67 last edited by

                                          @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
                                            imc67 translator @girish last edited by

                                            @girish right! But is that still possible with the code on GitHub?

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                                            • humptydumpty
                                              humptydumpty last edited by humptydumpty

                                              @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 that’s 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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