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Chris Taylor
29 articles on the Prosopo blog.
Top Arkose Labs Alternatives 2026: Enterprise Bot Defense Without the Game Challenge
Best Arkose Labs alternatives for 2026 — compare DataDome, HUMAN, Kasada and Prosopo for enterprise bot defense without visible game challenges.
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Top DataDome Alternatives 2026: Enterprise Bot Defense Compared
Best DataDome alternatives for 2026 — compare HUMAN, Kasada, Arkose Labs, Cloudflare and Prosopo on price, coverage and EU data residency.
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Top hCaptcha Alternatives 2026: Invisible, Private, No Image Puzzles
Best hCaptcha alternatives for 2026 — compare Procaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile, reCAPTCHA v3 and Friendly Captcha on pricing, privacy and bot detection.
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hCaptcha vs Cloudflare Turnstile 2026: Which Wins (and When Neither Does)
hCaptcha vs Cloudflare Turnstile in 2026 — pricing, catch rate and privacy compared. Turnstile is free but pass-only, hCaptcha stricter but paid.
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reCAPTCHA vs Cloudflare Turnstile 2026: Which One (and When Procaptcha Beats Both)
reCAPTCHA vs Cloudflare Turnstile in 2026 — pricing, catch rate and privacy compared. reCAPTCHA gives a score, Turnstile is free, both are US processors.
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reCAPTCHA vs hCaptcha 2026: Which One (and Why Procaptcha Often Wins Both)
reCAPTCHA vs hCaptcha in 2026 — pricing, GDPR, catch rate compared. reCAPTCHA is cheaper at low volume, hCaptcha stricter, both are US data processors.
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How to Stop Ticket Scalping: The 2026 Anti-Bot Playbook
How to stop ticket scalping in 2026 — block scalper bots, residential proxies and bulk signups at the queue, ticket page, drop API and CDN edge.
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Forrester Wave Bot and Agent Trust Management Q2 2026: How Prosopo Compares
Forrester Wave Bot and Agent Trust Management Q2 2026 named 8 vendors. Compare DataDome, HUMAN, Kasada, Arkose Labs and the Prosopo alternative.
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How to Stop PHP Form Spam (Without a Plugin)
If your PHP mail script is being abused by bots, stop the bot before mail() runs — server-side CAPTCHA verification in a few lines of PHP, via Procaptcha.
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Faking browsers is easy — but not at scale
131,819 residential US IPs threw 1.4M brute-force attempts at one mobile-only customer in 30 days — all collapsing onto a handful of fingerprints.
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Google reCAPTCHA Switches to Data Processor - Too Little, Too Late?
Google flips reCAPTCHA to data processor in April 2026 — after a decade of harvesting visitor data. Why the switch, and why it doesn't fix GDPR risk.
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How to Add CAPTCHA to Fastly CDN
Learn how to integrate Procaptcha with Fastly CDN to protect your website from bot attacks while maintaining performance and user privacy.
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We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner
We moved MongoDB Atlas off AWS and onto self-hosted Hetzner boxes — 90% cost cut, no performance loss. Here's the setup, the Ansible, and what broke.
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reCAPTCHA is Changing Its Terms of Service
Google reCAPTCHA is changing its terms of service. Find out what this means for site owners and the pricing implications.
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🎫 Preventing Ticket Bots - The Battle for Fair Access
Ticket bots continue to plague the live event industry in 2026, frustrating fans and inflating prices. Discover the latest strategies to prevent them.
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How to Choose a GDPR-Friendly CAPTCHA for WordPress
Stop spam & stay GDPR-compliant! Learn how to choose a GDPR-friendly CAPTCHA for WordPress that boosts security without tracking.
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How to Integrate CAPTCHA Without Violating User Rights
Integrate CAPTCHA the right way! Ensure security, privacy, and accessibility without violating user rights. Follow our expert guide for best practices!
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Why is Ticket Scalping so Hard to Stop? Uncovered
Uncover the dark secrets of ticket scalping, from bots to black markets. See why it's so hard to stop and what can be done. Don't miss out - read now!
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How to Test Your Ansible Playbooks Locally
Testing your Ansible playbooks locally can save you time and effort. Here are some tips to help you get started.
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We Are Being Blackmailed or: How Not to Hire a Contractor
A contractor that we hired on Upwork is now blackmailing us. Here's how we got into this situation and how we're dealing with it.
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tsx vs ts-node: Time to Drop ts-node for tsx
tsx vs ts-node compared: why tsx runs TypeScript faster than ts-node, and how to migrate your Node.js scripts away from ts-node today.
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Using Vite To Rebuild Local Dependencies in an NPM Workspace
Vite ignores local workspace packages because they sit outside its module graph — the config trick that forces Vite to rebuild sibling npm packages.
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What is the best value CAPTCHA in 2024?
Find out what the best value CAPTCHA is in 2024 and how it compares to other popular CAPTCHA solutions.
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How Much Does Prosopo Procaptcha Cost Compared to reCAPTCHA?
Procaptcha vs reCAPTCHA on cost — after Google's price hike, we break down per-call pricing and show where Procaptcha comes in cheaper at real volume.
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Invisible Captcha: A Seamless Solution by Prosopo
Invisible captcha blocks spam and abuse without a challenge screen — how Procaptcha runs silently in the background and only interrupts suspicious traffic.
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Stop giving your website data away!
Find out why reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, and Cloudflare Turnstile may be secretly monetising your website data, and how Prosopo's Procaptcha is solving this problem.
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How to deploy Procaptcha on your website or app
How to switch from Google's reCAPTCHA to Prosopo Procaptcha and protect your website or app from bots for free.
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Prosopo team at Polkadot Decoded 2022
Prosopo at Polkadot Decoded 2022 in Berlin — Gavin Wood on Governance v2, Encointer on UBI, and why web3 still needs bot protection at the wallet layer.
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Prosopo receives grant from Web3 Foundation to build human verification
Prosopo has received a Web3 Foundation grant to build a decentralised human verification marketplace, developed with Gimly to protect DApps from bot attacks.
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