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.
CAPTCHA Updated 5 min read
Stop Giving Away Your Website Data!
Are you aware that popular CAPTCHA services may be secretly monetizing your website's data? Services like reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, and Cloudflare Turnstile aren't just about bot protection - they're massive ad networks in disguise. They covertly collect your website data, package it, and sell it off without your consent.
The Problem with Existing Solutions
Traditional bot protection services demand that all your website traffic flows through their centralized bot detection platform. This means entrusting them with your entire site's data, ripe for exploitation. Even if they claim innocence, their closed-source technology and private databases conceal the truth, leaving you in the dark about what happens to your data.
Enter Prosopo's Procaptcha
Procaptcha from Prosopo revolutionizes bot detection. Instead of relying on a single entity, Procaptcha operates through a network of Captcha Providers, each financially motivated to offer reliable bot detection. These providers, registered in our transparent on-chain database, handle CAPTCHA challenges, ensuring your data stays decentralized. By distributing requests randomly across our network, Procaptcha prevents providers from accessing enough data to analyze or monetize your website.
We are also transparent. Unlike our competitors, all our code is open source, allowing you to scrutinize the data we send.
Ensuring Data Integrity
We take data integrity seriously. Before serving any captcha, we verify its source against our public on-chain database, ensuring legitimacy. If the data aligns, the captcha appears in the browser; otherwise, it's rejected, and the provider's score drops - a powerful incentive for accuracy.
Providers earn rewards for accuracy, receiving a share of fees from website operators. Conversely, inaccuracies lead to reduced rewards.
Migrate from Google reCAPTCHA
A Bot Exposure Assessment is a 30-minute call with an engineer. We look at your traffic, show where your current setup leaves gaps, and agree how a trial would be judged. Nothing to install first.
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