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Procaptcha vs reCAPTCHA 2026: Data Controller, Pricing & Catch Rate
Procaptcha and Google reCAPTCHA compared on the 2026 controller-model change, free-tier terms, catch rate against modern solvers, and cost above 100K assessments. Where each fits, and where they differ.
Hugh Parry
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Procaptcha vs Cloudflare Turnstile 2026: GDPR, Catch Rate & Lock-in
Procaptcha and Cloudflare Turnstile compared on GDPR posture, catch rate against stealth headless bots, vendor lock-in and free-tier terms. Where each fits, and where they differ.
Hugh Parry
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.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
Privacy & compliance
Procaptcha vs Cloudflare Turnstile 2026: GDPR, Catch Rate & Lock-in
Procaptcha and Cloudflare Turnstile compared on GDPR posture, catch rate against stealth headless bots, vendor lock-in and free-tier terms. Where each fits, and where they differ.
Hugh Parry
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.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
Live events & ticket bots
How to Stop Ticket Scalping: The 2026 Anti-Bot Playbook
How to stop scalpers and stop scalping in 2026 — block scalper bots, residential proxies and bulk signups at the queue, ticket page, drop API and CDN edge.
Chris Taylor
Oklahoma SB 1241: New Laws to Stop Ticketing Bots and Protect Fans
Oklahoma SB 1241 bans ticketing bots and forces price transparency — what the law requires, and how Procaptcha blocks scalper automation for compliance.
Hugh Parry
🎫 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.
Chris Taylor
Technical deep dives
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.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
CAPTCHA fundamentals
Learn the basics from the team building the next generation.
Procaptcha vs reCAPTCHA 2026: Data Controller, Pricing & Catch Rate
Procaptcha and Google reCAPTCHA compared on the 2026 controller-model change, free-tier terms, catch rate against modern solvers, and cost above 100K assessments. Where each fits, and where they differ.
Hugh Parry
Procaptcha vs Cloudflare Turnstile 2026: GDPR, Catch Rate & Lock-in
Procaptcha and Cloudflare Turnstile compared on GDPR posture, catch rate against stealth headless bots, vendor lock-in and free-tier terms. Where each fits, and where they differ.
Hugh Parry
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.
Chris Taylor
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Procaptcha vs Cloudflare Turnstile 2026: GDPR, Catch Rate & Lock-in
Procaptcha and Cloudflare Turnstile compared on GDPR posture, catch rate against stealth headless bots, vendor lock-in and free-tier terms. Where each fits, and where they differ.
Hugh Parry
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.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
How to Stop Ticket Scalping: The 2026 Anti-Bot Playbook
How to stop scalpers and stop scalping in 2026 — block scalper bots, residential proxies and bulk signups at the queue, ticket page, drop API and CDN edge.
Chris Taylor
Forrester Wave Bot and Agent Trust Management Q2 2026: How Prosopo Compares
Forrester's Q2 2026 Wave named 8 Bot and Agent Trust Management vendors. What each got dinged for, and how Prosopo — the specialist entry — compares.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
Best CAPTCHA 2026: 7 Top Solutions Compared
What is the best CAPTCHA in 2026? Compare pricing, privacy, GDPR compliance and bot-stopping power across the 7 leading CAPTCHA solutions.
Hugh Parry
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.
Chris Taylor
Cloudflare Turnstile Alternatives 2026 — 8 Options Ranked
Turnstile returns a pass/fail token — no rule, no drill-down. Here's how Prosopo, hCaptcha, ALTCHA and 5 others compare on catch rate, GDPR and vendor lock-in.
Hugh Parry
Oklahoma SB 1241: New Laws to Stop Ticketing Bots and Protect Fans
Oklahoma SB 1241 bans ticketing bots and forces price transparency — what the law requires, and how Procaptcha blocks scalper automation for compliance.
Hugh Parry
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.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
We suffered MongooseJS so you don't have to
We investigate how MongooseJS's type safety can silently add bugs to your code base.
George Oastler
Survey Companies Are Having Their Data Compromised by AI Bots
AI bots now fill and submit online surveys at scale, poisoning your data. How to keep survey responses clean by blocking bots at submission with Procaptcha.
Hugh Parry
