Google reCaptcha

[potinho]

Hello everyone, today I want to alert OT administrators that Google's reCaptcha will undergo a change, in addition to being migrated into Google Cloud projects and will have a charge of over 10 thousand requests, starting at 8 dollars.


That said, I migrated to hCaptcha, which was extremely easy (I use Gesior 2012).

Switch from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha | hCaptcha

Switching from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha is easy. Below you can find a step-by-step guide to help with this upgrade.

docs.hcaptcha.com

This change to Google reCaptcha will happen definitively, from what I understand, at the end of 2025, but I believe that many will want to anticipate it.

 

[Gesior.pl]

in addition to being migrated into Google Cloud projects and will have a charge of over 10 thousand requests, starting at 8 dollars.

IDK if it was minimum 8$ before, but reCaptcha has limit of 10k requests per month for years.
The same is with Google Maps widget placed on your site (ex. on your company site, to show it's real world location on map).
If you don't have account with enabled billing, it will show error 'invalid api key' after you hit 10k requests.

If you did not hit this limit on your OTS until now with reCaptcha, you won't hit it after moving API keys to Cloud offer. You still don't have to enable 'billing' on your Cloud Project, which means it will just shutdown (show api error), when you hit limit and do not charge anything ($).

Anyway, if anyone is interested in hCaptcha, I prepared 3 test sites, with 3 available challenge levels on Free account:

• easy - Hcaptcha Easy - Forgotten (https://arm.skalski.pro/?subtopic=hcaptcha_easy)
• moderate - Hcaptcha Moderate - Forgotten (https://arm.skalski.pro/?subtopic=hcaptcha_moderate)
• difficult - Hcaptcha Difficult - Forgotten (https://arm.skalski.pro/?subtopic=hcaptcha_difficult)

hCaptcha that accepts users by tracking their behavior on site (almost invisible to user, just click "I'm not a robot" and it auto-accepts it) - not by passing challenge question - is behind 99$/month paywall.

 

[222222]

hCaptcha is very easy to bypass. What we need is a state of the art, open source CAPTCHA. The easiest way right now is to ask Proton to release their. They have mentioned if there's enough interest, they will make it open source. It respects the privacy of users and it's efficient in blocking bots. So folks, please e-mail Proton.