reCAPTCHA Alternatives

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As we all probably know by now, Google’s reCaptcha is being pushed to a pay model and requires the registering of each domain being hosted. I have a hosted solution with over 300 websites, plus a few custom sites, and I don’t want to go through the headache of registering each new site every time we launch one. There’s already enough to do, and if a site gets shut down… the management is too much to even think about.

Has anyone rolled their own or know of an existing CF-based solution? Not just imageCaptcha() but a system, of types.

Thanks

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There is a CF solution, but it’s CF as in Cloudflare instead of CFML. :slightly_smiling_face:

Seriously, though, I highly recommend Cloudflare Turnstile.

It is completely separate from Cloudflare proxying.

If I knew how they coded it, I’d have done it in-house, which I actually tried more than once. It’s not worth the effort and is constant whack-a-mole maintenance nightmare.

And their API might solve your 300+ sites problem?

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Awesome. I’ll check it out. Thanks!

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Hey, I’m a dev at Prosopo. If you’re still looking for a reCAPTCHA alternative/turnstile didn’t work out for you then we’d be happy to put together CF implementation documentation & get you using our API for handling site registration automatically.

Just pop us an email after signing up and we’ll give you a hand :slight_smile:

Thanks

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Here’s a sample CFML implementation for Turnstile I wrote up a few years ago: Adding CloudFlare Turnstile CAPTCHAs to CFML Sites

In general I’ve found Turnstile works pretty well, but its not perfect. Since AI can solve captchas it is ever increasingly difficult to solve this problem, but it can certainly keep simpler bots out.

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this sounds great, I’m always happy to assist if someone else in the community wants to jump in and drive this?

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We would also be interested! Have you made any progress on a ColdFusion/Lucee implementation+documentation for your service?