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Friendly Captcha

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Friendly Captcha is a tool for preventing spam on your website.

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License model

  • FreemiumProprietary

Country of Origin

  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Online
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
3.8 / 5 Avg rating (10)
10likes
11comments
0news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  GDPR Compliant
  2.  Bot detection
  3.  Mobile friendly
  4.  Captcha
  5. WordPress icon  WordPress Integration
  6.  European data privacy
  7.  No Tracking
  8.  Web-Based
  9.  Ad-free
  10.  Spam Filter
  11.  Dark Mode

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    Kezxo added Friendly Captcha as alternative to Anubis (anti-bot)
    about 1 month ago
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    braky added Friendly Captcha as alternative to Captcha
    2 months ago
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    POX added Friendly Captcha as alternative to Cap Captcha
    2 months ago
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    sanson added Friendly Captcha as alternative to CaptchaText
    4 months ago
  • laney-medallion reviewed Friendly Captcha  
    9 months ago

    There's really no "bot detection" here, itis just proof of work so should be labelled as a rate limiter.

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    K0RR added Friendly Captcha as alternative to mCaptcha
    9 months ago
  • Me-Myself-I reviewed Friendly Captcha  
    9 months ago

    I've never used Friendly Captcha but just from their description on their website, I can tell that it doesn't work. They say that how it works is, the user's computer completes a task in the background whilst they use the website. What's stopping a bot's computer from completing the task? Maybe it uses up computing power which acts as a significantly drain on a bot which is posting thousands of fake reviews or something, but it seems a bit far-fetched that this would actually stop bots.

  • Evi1M4chine_ reviewed Friendly Captcha  
    9 months ago

    Edit 2:I just noticed that you can likely circumvent it, because there is nothing to indicate that actually checks if the input comes from a human. … So it happily verifies that this is a browser used by a human, where the browser is “solving a unique crypto puzzle” … and then doesn’t seem to care if a bot fills the form an submits it. … If that is true, then that’s basically a huge facepalm. XD … I’ll have to investigate.

    Plus, it is apparently online. Not offline. That’s already a no-no,...

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Friendly Captcha information

  • Developed by

    DE flagFriendly Captcha GmbH
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $9 and $39 per month + free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.8
  • Alternatives

    21 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 11 comments and reviews about Friendly Captcha, and it has gotten 10 likes

Friendly Captcha was added to AlternativeTo by Wim Tomo on Dec 9, 2020 and this page was last updated Dec 20, 2022.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: Friendly Captcha is praised for being free, open-source, user-friendly, and GDPR-compliant. Users appreciate its privacy-conscious design, lack of data storage, and the proof-of-work (PoW) concept as a better alternative to reCAPTCHA. However, some skepticism exists about its effectiveness in bot detection, questioning its privacy claims and noting potential circumvention vulnerabilities. Concerns are also raised about its alignment with GDPR compliance when used online.
Top Positive Comment
Tanveer Salim
Jan 2, 2021
1

Its Free and Open Source software. Free accounts get 1000 free registrations per month. This is more than enough for our website.

Top Negative Comment
Evi1M4chine_
Aug 6, 2023
4

Edit 2:I just noticed that you can likely circumvent it, because there is nothing to indicate that actually checks if the input comes from a human. … So it happily verifies that this is a browser used by a human, where the browser is “solving a unique crypto puzzle” … and then doesn’t seem to care if a bot fills the form an submits it. … If that is true, then that’s basically a huge facepalm. XD … I’ll have to investigate.

Plus, it is apparently online. Not offline. That’s already a no-no, and doesn’t align with any claim to be GDPR-compliant. Because you still have to declare that you are using a different server by a different company. And blindly trust their claim to be compliant. (Just look up “Doctolib "Big Brother Award"” so see how that goes… ^^)

Original comment: Questionable privacy. Says they are “Made in Europe”. What does that mean? Russia is Europe. The UK with its Five-Eyes GHCQ is Europe. Swiss Intelligence is Europe. And even if it’s the EU, The NSA lapdog BND is Europe. The French laws just changed in a horrible way too …

To me it sounds like eyewash typically used by black-eyed or deluded people who believe “our” spying agency is “good”. In other words: People with no clue what is secure. On top of it being unnecessary nationalism.

Edit: It’s a German company. Doesn’t mean it’s actually made under that jurisdiction though. It just means the BND and NSA that definitely got leverage over it. Also, Germans shouldn’t exactly be the ones to boast with nationalism. Let alone continent-spanning nationalism. ^^

Laney Medallion
Sep 25, 2024
0

There's really no "bot detection" here, itis just proof of work so should be labelled as a rate limiter.

Me-Myself-I
Sep 14, 2024
2

I've never used Friendly Captcha but just from their description on their website, I can tell that it doesn't work. They say that how it works is, the user's computer completes a task in the background whilst they use the website. What's stopping a bot's computer from completing the task? Maybe it uses up computing power which acts as a significantly drain on a bot which is posting thousands of fake reviews or something, but it seems a bit far-fetched that this would actually stop bots.

Guest
Dec 16, 2021
-2

Best alternative out there

Nancy Roth
Dec 9, 2021
-1

Best captcha option

Guest
Dec 9, 2021
0

The PoW concept of Friendly Captcha is very smart. It’s a better alternative to reCAPTCHA as it doesn’t store personal data and users don’t have to do labeling tasks like “click on the cars”. I can recommend it.

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What is Friendly Captcha?

The 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.