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Anti-spam VS hCaptcha

Compare Anti-spam VS hCaptcha and see what are their differences

Anti-spam logo Anti-spam

Simple and powerful WordPress plugin to fight spam.

hCaptcha logo hCaptcha

Do you use a captcha to keep out bots? hCaptcha is a drop-in replacement for reCAPTCHA that earns website owners money and helps companies get their data labeled.
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    2021-08-28
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    2023-08-28

Anti-spam videos

Stop WordPress Spam Emails with CleanTalk Anti-Spam | Complete Review and Tutorial

hCaptcha videos

How To Setup hCaptcha For WordPress 2020 - reCaptcha Alternative hCaptcha - reCaptcha Paid Service?

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Anti-spam and hCaptcha)
SPAM Protection
7 7%
93% 93
SPAM
100 100%
0% 0
Captcha
3 3%
97% 97
Security
10 10%
90% 90

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hCaptcha Reviews

  1. It's super easy, straightforward and shouldn't take you more than 20-40 minutes to integrate

    To summarise the process of migrating from reCaptcha to hCaptha:

    1. ๐Ÿ‘Œ It's super easy, straightforward and shouldn't take you more than 20-40 minutes
    2. ๐Ÿ‘ You are feeding less data to Google
    3. ๐Ÿ’ธ You earn crypto/money (I have no idea what's the potential though)

    Here it is my original review

    ๐Ÿ Competitors: reCAPTCHA
    ๐Ÿ‘ Pros:    Easy integration|Privacy concisous|You earn money

Cloudflare replaced reCAPTCHA with hCaptcha. I followed their example. It took me 18 min.
Cloudflare announced yesterday that they are moving away from Google's reCAPTCHA in favour of hCaptcha. In my opinion, that is huge! Given the amount of traffic transiting through CloudFlare. That has cut some significant level of vision from Google's all-seeing and tracking eye. Moreover, they are giving a good example for others to follow.
Source: dev.to
Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha
We evaluated a number of CAPTCHA vendors as well as building a system ourselves. In the end, hCaptcha emerged as the best alternative to reCAPTCHA. We liked a number of things about the hCaptcha solutions: 1) they don't sell personal data; they collect only minimum necessary personal data, they are transparent in describing the info they collect and how they use and/or...

Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, hCaptcha seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Anti-spam mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Anti-spam yet. Tracking of Anti-spam recommendations started around Mar 2021.

hCaptcha mentions (4)

  • Figured out how to make HCaptcha work -- Instructions Inside.
    That's it, and HCaptcha will start working. I would imagine it's a better idea to add a specific site exception for hcaptcha.com, and I'm sure I will later, but just really didn't have the patience to do it via screen reader right now. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Discovering OpenZeppelin Defender features with an NFT Game
    Finally, we build a front end with a captcha feature with NextJS and hCaptcha. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago
  • I can't log into Bitwarden.....
    I have Ublock and UMatrix running. Had to whitelist hcaptcha.com and bitwarden.com to get the challenge to pop up. Source: about 2 years ago
  • New Bungie store password reset broken :(
    First of all, you can stop trolling. It's not about the actual technology, as it may be hcaptcha.com for change or any others like that. It's about not relying on badly aged technology which is only creating problems for users, not for the bots, as this level of noise and numbers/letters is no longer an issue even for javascript-based AI. Source: almost 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Anti-spam and hCaptcha, you can also consider the following products

StopForumSpam - StopForumSpam - a database of known forum and blog spam, its sources and the email addresses reported

reCAPTCHA - reCAPTCHA is a free security service that protects your websites from spam and abuse.

Antispam Bee - Say Goodbye to comment spam on your WordPress blog or website.

MTcaptcha - Enterprise Captcha solutions

Sblam! - Open-source implementation of server-side spam filtering of blog comments and forum posts.

GeeTest CAPTCHA - GeeTest protects your websites, mobile Apps and APIs from bot threats.