Friendly Captcha

<p>Friendly Captcha is a privacy-first anti-bot solution that protects WordPress website forms from spam and abuse.</p>
<p>Do you use a captcha like reCAPTCHA to keep out bots? Friendly Captcha is a powerful anti-spam service that blocks spam-bots without annoying captcha images and protects user privacy.</p>
<h3>How Friendly Captcha Works</h3>
<p>Friendly Captcha is a tool for preventing spam on your website. Other CAPTCHAs are a burden on your users, Friendly Captcha respects your users.</p>
<p>Friendly Captcha is a proof-of-work based anti-bot solution in which the user’s device does all the work. We generate a unique crypto puzzle for each visitor.</p>
<p>Solving it will usually take only a few seconds. As soon as the user starts filling the form it starts getting solved. By the time the user is ready to submit, the puzzle is probably already solved.</p>
<p>Friendly Captcha prevents spam and doesn’t punish real users in doing so.</p>
<h3>Privacy Notices</h3>
<h4>No personal information</h4>
<p>Our anti-bot service does not store personal data from your end users. See our Privacy Policy for End Users to learn more.</p>
<h4>No cookies</h4>
<p>Our end user solution does not use cookies. This protects your end users from being tracked and followed from site to site.</p>
<h4>No discrimination</h4>
<p>Normal CAPTCHA tasks are not easy for all humans. Our solution works without labeling tasks and is thus accessible to everyone.</p>
<h4>Decentralized data processing</h4>
<p>By default, requests are processed in the point-of-presence closest to where it is accessed by the end user. See our Privacy Policy for End Users to learn more.</p>
<p>Join thousands of organizations in switching to a privacy-first anti-bot solution.</p>
<h3>Forms and Plugins Supported</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress Login Form</li>
<li>WordPress Register Form</li>
<li>WordPress Reset Password Form</li>
<li>WordPress Comments</li>
<li>CoBlocks</li>
<li>Contact Form 7</li>
<li>Divi Contact Forms</li>
<li>Elementor Pro Forms</li>
<li>FluentForm</li>
<li>Gravity Forms</li>
<li>Ultimate Member Login Form</li>
<li>Ultimate Member Register Form</li>
<li>Ultimate Member Reset Password Form</li>
<li>WooCommerce Login Form</li>
<li>WooCommerce Register Form</li>
<li>WooCommerce Checkout Form</li>
<li>WooCommerce Lost Password Form</li>
<li>WPForms</li>
<li>Profile Builder Login Form</li>
<li>Profile Builder Register Form</li>
<li>Profile Builder Reset Password Form</li>
<li>Forminator</li>
<li>Formidable</li>
<li>Avada Form Builder</li>
</ul>
<p>If you see an integration that’s missing, please <a href="https://github.com/FriendlyCaptcha/friendly-captcha-wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">open a pull request</a></p>
<p>However, you may wish to email the authors of plugins you’d like to support Friendly Captcha: it will usually take them only an hour or two to add native support if they choose to do so. This will simplify your use of Friendly Captcha, and is the best solution in the long run.</p>


Friendly Captcha for WordPress

On first sight this CAPTCHA solution is what many people are looking for: Easy to implement and fully GDPR-compliant.

With the "Personal" plan there is a free plan available however I got an email from the friendly captcha team to upgrade my account. The smallest pricing option is 9 € a month. Sorry guys... for providing a simple piece of software 1.080 € over 10 years is ridiculous and I am out.

Good but...

Friendly Captcha is a privacy-first anti-bot solution that protects WordPress website forms from spam and abuse.

Olaf Lederer

<p>This free contact form plugin is used to create accessible contact forms with advanced spam protection (honeypot, cookie and optionally Cloudflare Turnstile or hCaptcha). In contrary to most other form plugins, there is no form-builder included.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>The generated form is accessible and works even when the visitor has disabled Javascript</li>
<li>Accessible form field validation</li>
<li>Protect your forms against spam bots using a honeypot and cookies</li>
<li>Track successfully submitted forms in Google Analytics and/or Clicky</li>
<li>Create multiple contact forms via an easy to use interface and add the form via the block editor or using a shortcode</li>
<li>Collect form submissions for all your forms or the forms you choose</li>
<li>Get insights which spam protection feature works the best for your form. A simple log file keeps track about the different spam attempts</li>
<li>Multiple responder emails, send a HTML formatted mail in response to the form submission</li>
<li>Works with the default wp_mail() function (use it together with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-smtp-by-maileroo/" rel="ugc">Maileroo</a> plugin to send emails via SMTP)</li>
<li>Optional: Protect your forms by blocking specific countries which are not relevant for your website or business</li>
<li>Optional: Protect your contact form with the plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/honeypot/" rel="ugc">WP Armour – Honeypot Anti Spam</a></li>
<li>Optional: Email address verification with the verification API from <a href="https://maileroo.com/?r=acfplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Maileroo</a></li>
<li>Optional: Form fields for Company name, phone number, website and an accept terms checkbox</li>
<li>Optional: Redirect the visitor after a succesful form submission to a “Thank you” page</li>
<li>Optional: Use the plugin’s CSS style-sheet for your forms</li>
<li>Optional: Protect your forms with Cloudflare Turnstile or hCaptcha</li>
<li>Optional: For additional spam protection, you can add a simple and accessible challenge to your form.</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin is built to keep stuff simple. If you need a complex web form or if you need a form builder, please use one of the form plugins you can find in the WordPress repository. To use the “Block countries” feature we use the IP to Country API from Country.is. They offer a free service and you don’t need an API key.</p>


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