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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.
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 posture, catch rate and integration compared. reCAPTCHA is cheaper at low volumes, hCaptcha is stricter. Both send data to US processors, which is why teams needing GDPR-clean bot protection end up on Procaptcha.
Chris Taylor
reCAPTCHA vs Cloudflare Turnstile 2026: Which One (and When Procaptcha Beats Both)
reCAPTCHA vs Cloudflare Turnstile in 2026: pricing, catch rate, privacy and integration compared. reCAPTCHA gives you a score; Turnstile is free. Both send visitor data to a US processor, which is why teams needing GDPR-clean bot protection end up on Procaptcha.
Chris Taylor
hCaptcha vs Cloudflare Turnstile 2026: Which Wins (and When Neither Does)
hCaptcha vs Cloudflare Turnstile in 2026: pricing, catch rate, privacy and integration compared. Turnstile is free but pass-only. hCaptcha is stricter but paid. Both send visitor data to US processors, which is why many teams end up on Procaptcha instead.
Chris Taylor
How to Stop Ticket Scalping: The 2026 Anti-Bot Playbook
How to stop ticket scalping in 2026 — block scalper bots, residential proxy farms and bulk-account signups at the queue, the ticket page, the drop API and the CDN edge.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
How to Stop PHP Form Spam (Without a Plugin)
If your PHP mail script is being abused by bots, the fix is to stop the bot before mail() runs. Server-side CAPTCHA verification in a few lines of PHP, with the Procaptcha API.
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
We watched 131,819 residential US IPs throw 1.4M brute-force attempts at one mobile-only customer over 30 days, and they all collapsed onto a handful of fingerprints.
Chris Taylor
Cloudflare Turnstile Alternatives 2026: Free & Privacy-First
Cloudflare Turnstile alternatives for 2026: 8 vendors compared on catch rate, GDPR posture, pricing and lock-in. See which teams pick Procaptcha, hCaptcha, ALTCHA or Friendly Captcha over Turnstile, and why.
Hugh Parry
Oklahoma SB 1241: New Laws to Stop Ticketing Bots and Protect Fans
Oklahoma has passed the Fraud and Ticketing Accountability Act (SB 1241) to ban ticketing bots and enforce price transparency. Learn how Prosopo ensures compliance and blocks automated traffic.
Hugh Parry
Google reCAPTCHA Switches to Data Processor - Too Little, Too Late?
Google announces reCAPTCHA will switch from data controller to data processor in April 2026. After years of privacy violations and data harvesting, can enterprises really trust this sudden change?
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
Research has shown that AI bots can now populate and submit online surveys with relative ease. Learn how to avoid your survey data being compromised by bots using Procaptcha.
Hugh Parry
We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner
We made the switch from AWS-hosted MongoDB Atlas to a self-hosted solution on Hetzner, resulting in a 90% reduction in costs while maintaining performance and reliability.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
🎫 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
Procaptcha vs hCaptcha 2026: Pricing, Free Limit & GDPR
Procaptcha vs hCaptcha: pricing, free tier limits, GDPR compliance, and UX compared. See why teams switch from hCaptcha to Procaptcha.
Hugh Parry
Procaptcha vs Friendly Captcha - Why Real Bot Protection Matters in 2026
Comprehensive comparison of Procaptcha vs Friendly Captcha revealing why Friendly Captcha's minimal bot protection fails against real threats. Discover superior security with Procaptcha.
Hugh Parry
Reactive Frameworks Cheatsheet - React, Vue, Svelte and Angular
Maxim Akimov
PHP Views Package - Templating Made Easy with Blade and Model-Driven Approach
Maxim Akimov
Streamlining Releases: Building Scalable CICD Pipelines with Changesets
Overcome common challenges and scale your CICD pipelines for seamless versioning, releases and deployments.
George Oastler
Independent vs Locked Versioning in a Workspace
Discover the key differences between locked and independent versioning in workspaces, and learn how to optimize your team's development and deployment workflows.
George Oastler
Mastering Versioning: A Guide to Software Stability
Explore the essentials of versioning in software development, from semantic versioning basics to avoiding common pitfalls, and learn how to manage dependencies and updates with confidence
George Oastler
Monorepo vs Multirepo Architecture: How to Decide?
Discover the pros and cons of monorepo vs multirepo architectures, and learn how to choose the right approach for your projects to streamline development and accelerate delivery.
George Oastler
hCaptcha and GDPR - Privacy Claims Warrant Scrutiny
Examination of hCaptcha reveals several potential friction points with GDPR principles.
Hugh Parry
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.
Chris Taylor
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!
Chris Taylor
How Do Ticket Scalpers Get Tickets? Bots, Tactics & Defenses
How do ticket scalpers get tickets before fans? Inside the bots, insider deals & resale tactics — plus what venues can do to stop them.
Hugh Parry
How to Make CAPTCHA GDPR Compliant & Protect Privacy
Discover 7 essential steps to make your CAPTCHA GDPR compliant, avoid hefty fines, and pass security audits. Implement privacy-focused solutions today!
Hugh Parry
What Privacy Laws Should CAPTCHA Providers Comply With
Stay compliant with global privacy laws! Learn what CAPTCHA providers must follow to avoid fines and protect user data while ensuring legal security.
Hugh Parry
What is the Future of CAPTCHA and Online Privacy
Discover the future of CAPTCHA! Learn how AI, privacy-first authentication & invisible security are shaping online privacy. Stay ahead - read now!
George Oastler
What do Artists do to Prevent Ticket Scalping?
How do artists stop ticket scalpers? See how verified fans, dynamic pricing & blockchain disrupt resale bots and protect fair access.
George Oastler
Which Security Risks Does CAPTCHA Pose: Critical Flaws?
Discover the critical flaws in CAPTCHA security that hackers exploit. Learn how to protect your site from threats. Stay secure - read now!
Hugh Parry
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!
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
actions/cache@v3 restore: GitHub Actions Cache Fix
Fix GitHub Actions caching with actions/cache@v3 and actions/cache/restore: share caches across branches and evict old caches faster.
George Oastler
TypeScript: Branded Types 🔧
How to brand TypeScript types for norminal typing, providing an automated and easy-to-use way of making a type nominal.
George Oastler
Using Vite To Rebuild Local Dependencies in an NPM Workspace
When we make changes to a package that our vite project depends on, Vite doesn't automatically rebuild the local package dependency as it's outside the module graph. This article explains how to get Vite to rebuild local dependencies in an NPM workspace.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
How Much Does Prosopo Procaptcha Cost Compared to reCAPTCHA?
A comparison of the costs of using Prosopo Procaptcha and Google reCAPTCHA for website security. Google reCAPTCHA's price hike has caused quite a stir in the digital community. In this article, we compare cost of using Google reCAPTCHA with Prosopo Procaptcha, a private, community-powered CAPTCHA service.
Chris Taylor
Vite: How to handle `.node` files
Work around for handling `.node` files in vite using a custom plugin. `.node` files are the nodejs way of providing platform specific code. This sounds great, until Vite enters the mix. Vite has no ability to handle native binaries whilst bundling, interpreting `.node` files as raw js. In this article we discuss how to handle `.node` files in Vite.
George Oastler
Invisible Captcha: A Seamless Solution by Prosopo
Invisible Captcha is a powerful tool for protecting your website from spam and abuse without disrupting the [user experience](/glossary/terms/user-experience/). Learn how it works and why it's a valuable addition to your security arsenal.
Chris Taylor
Google reCAPTCHA is a privacy nightmare - Questions over privacy promises and cookie use
Scrutiny by the French data protection authority, CNIL, reveals the problematic infrastructure that allows for reCAPTCHA's operations
Hugh Parry
Why am I clicking traffic lights? The reason Google reCAPTCHA frustrates users
The choice of traffic lights, cars, and urban scenery for reCAPTCHA challenges is not arbitrary. In this article, we discss the reasons why millions of people around the world have been asked to click on pictures of traffic lights and bikes for most of the last decade!
Hugh Parry
Unveiling the Mysteries of CAPTCHA: A Fun Dive into Cybersecurity 🛡️
Unveil the secrets behind CAPTCHA, the digital gatekeeper standing between you and cyber chaos, in our captivating exploration of cybersecurity's unsung hero!
George Oastler
TypeScript: Mapped Type Magic 🪄
Explore how TypeScript mapped types can create some perplexing paradoxes where Cat === Dog! An overview of how to brand identical types so that the TypeScript compiler can tell them apart from each other.
George Oastler
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.
Chris Taylor
Google reCAPTCHA Pricing: How the Price Hike Affects You
Google reCAPTCHA pricing changed: the free tier dropped from 1M to 10K requests/month. Here's what it means and how Procaptcha compares.
Hugh Parry
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.
Chris Taylor
Prosopo Procaptcha vs Google reCAPTCHA
Why Prosopo's decentralised, privacy-focused, and free solution offers a more user-friendly and secure alternative for protecting your web forms against bots, when compared to the industry standard reCAPTCHA
Hugh Parry
Prosopo team at Polkadot Decoded 2022
The Prosopo team had the privilege of participating in the third edition of Polkadot Decoded in Berlin, enjoying talks by Gavin Wood on Governance v2, and by Encointer on providing Universal Basic Income through decentralised local currencies amongst others. The event highlighted the need for [bot protection](/glossary/terms/bot-protection/) for web 3.
Chris Taylor
Prosopo receives grant from Web3 Foundation to build human verification
We are thrilled to announce that Prosopo has secured a grant from the Web3 Foundation, propelling our mission to create a decentralized human verification marketplace. Developed in collaboration with our partner, Gimly, the Prosopo protocol aims to fortify decentralized applications (DApps) against bot attacks while maintaining a high level of decentralization. Such innovations are vital in transitioning blockchain applications from niche utilities to integral components of daily life.
Chris Taylor
