Friendly Captcha: The User Privacy-Focused, Invisible CAPTCHA Solution
Friendly Captcha is a new CAPTCHA alternative to reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha based in the EU with a focus on data privacy, security and accessibility. It is the only sophisticated proof-of-work-based CAPTCHA solution on the market that runs entirely in the background and is truly invisible, while effectively protecting websites and online forms from malicious bots and attacks. Instead of requiring website visitors to manually solve an image recognition challenge, Friendly Captcha generates an invisible, cryptographic puzzle that is solved by the user’s device in the background. Based on technical signals, the difficulty of the invisible puzzle can be scaled to make it even harder for suspected bots and risky actors to get through. Unlike hCaptcha and reCAPTCHA, there are no usability conflicts, no privacy concerns, and no accessibility issues. Friendly Captcha is fully accessible, WCAG compliant, GDPR compliant and does not require prior user consent to operate.How does Friendly Captcha work?
Friendly Captcha offers a completely different technical approach by using a combination of cryptography and risk signals to defend web interactions against automated spam and malicious bots.
Friendly Captcha presents each user with a unique, invisible cryptographic puzzle that is solved by the user’s device without any manual user interaction. Solving the puzzle typically takes only a few seconds and is done in the background while the user is still interacting with a protected area, such as filling out a registration or login form on a website. The impact on the user experience is minimal. The invisible background task is typically already completed by the time the user is ready to perform the protected web interaction.
The difficulty of the puzzle, and therefore the time and resources needed to solve it, is intelligently and automatically scaled based on sophisticated risk signals to protect against advanced bots. Friendly Captcha is completely invisible and require no manual user challenge at all.
This makes Friendly Captcha user-friendly and accessible to all users. It does not interfere with the user experience. At the same time, it effectively protects against unwanted spam submissions, bot traffic and cyber attacks.
Is Friendly Captcha GDPR compliant?
Friendly Captcha is fully GDPR compliant. It is transparent about the information it processes and minimizes data collection.
Friendly Captcha does not use any HTTP cookies nor persistent browser storage (such as LocalStorage or IndexedDB) to track users, and does not store personal data. Therefore, website owners do not need to obtain prior user consent. By informing your users in your privacy policy, you can easily use Friendly Captcha in a GDPR compliant way.
Friendly Captcha is an EU CAPTCHA provider, built in Germany and adheres to the highest European data protection standards. It does not use third parties outside the EU to process EU users’ data. This means that your EU users’ data is never transferred outside the European Union, while your website and forms are protected from bots and spam.
For EU website owners and international enterprises targeting EU users, Friendly Captcha offers a dedicated EU endpoint to ensure that the personal data of your European website visitors never leaves the EU. This helps you comply with GDPR requirements.
Benefits of Friendly Captcha
User-friendliness by design: Friendly Captcha technology never requires users to manually solve any visual challenges, audio challenges, or image recognition challenges. As seen with reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha, these challenges detract from the user experience. Friendly Captcha uses a fundamentally new CAPTCHA technology that provides the most user-friendly way to protect against bots. As a truly invisible CAPTCHA, it will never show a human a visual CAPTCHA challenge for bot protection.
Accessibility for everyone: Each Friendly Captcha challenge is invisible and solved by the user’s web browser in the background. No one ever has to solve an image classification task or recognize distorted letter combinations to gain authorized access to critical web interfaces. Friendly Captcha is fully compliant with the WCAG guidelines.
No cookies, no tracking: Friendly Captcha does not use any HTTP cookies nor persistent browser storage. Its invisible CAPTCHA technology protects against bots without storing any personal data. No personally identifiable information is stored via cookies or persistent storage.
Uncompromised GDPR compliance for EU users: European data protection compliance is straightforward with Friendly Captcha. Friendly Captcha is a German company, and with its dedicated EU endpoint, no personal data of EU users leaves the EU. With European hosting providers, European end user data stays within the EU.
Globally compliant with privacy laws: Friendly Captcha is trusted by international enterprises and governments around the world. It complies with global privacy standards such as GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA. It collects only necessary data to protect with the highest security standards and is solely focused on its security purpose. It doesn’t use any HTTP cookies nor persistent browser storage such as LocalStorage or IndexedDB. Friendly Captcha’s modern technology is compliant with relevant international data protection and privacy laws.
Weaknesses of Friendly Captcha
Free only for small websites: Compared to reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha, Friendly Captcha only protects smaller websites and applications with a free plan. Since Friendly Captcha is solely focused on bot protection, it is a paid service. Depending on the features needed, it offers several self-service plans, ranging from a Starter Plan to a Growth Plan to an Advanced Plan. Enterprise customers get a customized plan with high-end security, scalability and personal support.
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