hCaptcha, alternative to reCAPTCHA

ricardo

https://www.hcaptcha.com/post/hcaptcha-now-the-largest-independent-captcha-service

hCaptcha Is Now the Largest Independent CAPTCHA Service, Runs on 15% Of The Internet

Related Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25212541

Neoon

Because CF switched to it.

jonathanspw

It's also trash. hCaptcha is so annoying.

seriesn

hCaptcha is trash.

• Click pictures that contains boat
• Shows me picture of an anchor.

tetech

Depends on your use. If you're protecting a client login page (and I note that the two who complained are providers) then maybe so. For protecting a contact form, it is fine. 99%+ of visits to our contact pages are automated and/or spam, and hCaptcha is stopping that as well or better as Google without helping Google.

People who really want to contact someone just reload in the case of a dud captcha - for us they aren't potential customers, so if they can't be bothered doing that, we probably don't want to hear from them anyway. We expect those problems will improve as their volume increases.

eoamk

@seriesn said:
hCaptcha is trash.

• Click pictures that contains boat
• Shows me picture of an anchor.

Have had users complain about CF + hCaptcha issues as well. Mostly around crosswalk identification, I think?

yoursunny

I want to make push-up captcha. Computer asks you to do a number of push-ups, squats, and burpees in a particular order in front of your webcam. AI will check video continuity and whether you are doing correctly.

You don't have to look for tiny tiles of bikes and traffic lights anymore. In the worst case, I had to click 4 pages of tiles before getting to the Virmach control panel protected by Cloudflare.