hCaptcha instead of Google's reCAPTCHA?

Harewood · Post by **Harewood** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 7:28 am

Hi,
Is is possible to use hCaptcha instead of Google's reCAPTCHA?
Many thanks,

Jason

david63 · Post by **david63** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 7:38 am

You will require an extension for that as it is not something that is in the core code

Harewood · Post by **Harewood** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:24 am

ok, is anyone working on one?

david63 · Post by **david63** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:34 am

Harewood wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:24 am
ok, is anyone working on one?

No idea - have you looked in the Extension fora?

Harewood · Post by **Harewood** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:57 am

I did a board wide search on "hCaptcha" before posting and no results where returned...

david63 · Post by **david63** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:03 am

Harewood wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:57 am
I did a board wide search on "hCaptcha" before posting and no results where returned...

Then it would appear that you have your answer.

You could make an extension request in the Extension Request forum or if you are willing to pay post in the Wanted forum and see anyone is prepared to do it.

Post by **Mick** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:11 am

If your a Clodflare user it looks like your gonna get it anyway.

Harewood · Post by **Harewood** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 10:04 am

Mick wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:11 am
If your a Clodflare user it looks like your gonna get it anyway.

Excellent...

Swanny · Post by **Swanny** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:52 pm

Mick wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:11 am
If your a Clodflare user it looks like your gonna get it anyway.

Kind of. It won't be part of the built-in captcha for phpBB. I would like to see hCaptcha put in the core code as a CAPTCHA option perhaps even in place of Google's version.

I have 8 forums total that are configured the same but one gets more spam than the rest. Spammers have found a way around Google's latest v3 Recaptcha near as I can tell. So a less popular version may stump them more??

Post by **stevemaury** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:04 pm

For awhile. It is a never-ending battle.

Lumpy Burgertushie · Post by **Lumpy Burgertushie** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 11:26 pm

you could just use the phpbb built in Q&A
with a good question that can not be googled for the answer, you can usually eleminate pretty close to 100% of the spam bots. and with the first post needed moderation, you can get most of the human spammers as well.

robert

Post by **Mick** » Sun Apr 12, 2020 7:18 am

From what I’m led to believe none of the reCAPTCHA versions have been very secure.

Harewood · Post by **Harewood** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:06 pm

Swanny wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:52 pm
I would like to see hCaptcha put in the core code as a CAPTCHA option perhaps even in place of Google's version.

me too...

wolfbeast · Post by **wolfbeast** » Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:52 am

Adding another vote for adding hCaptcha support.
As far as I understood it's pretty much a drop-in replacement for reCAPTCHA v2 with just changing some URLs

Harewood · Post by **Harewood** » Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:33 am

wolfbeast wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:52 am
Adding another vote for adding hCaptcha support.
As far as I understood it's pretty much a drop-in replacement for reCAPTCHA v2 with just changing some URLs

Hopefully we will see phpBB support it soon then?

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