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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
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
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.
Chris Taylor
reCAPTCHA is Changing Its Terms of Service — What Site Owners Need to Do
Google's reCAPTCHA is showing 'Take action' on sites with older keys. What the ToS change means, which keys are affected, and how to remediate.
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
Procaptcha vs Friendly Captcha in 2026 — catch rate, GDPR posture and pricing compared. Friendly is proof-of-work only; Procaptcha catches real bots.
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
Locked vs independent versioning in a monorepo workspace — the tradeoffs on release cadence, dependency drift and CI overhead, and which one fits your team.
George Oastler
Mastering Versioning: A Guide to Software Stability
Semver rules, dependency traps and the pitfalls that break stable builds — how we manage versioning at Prosopo without wrecking downstream consumers.
George Oastler
Monorepo vs Multirepo Architecture: How to Decide?
Monorepo vs multirepo — tradeoffs on tooling, CI cost, dependency drift and team autonomy. Which one actually fits your project, and when to switch.
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
Ticket scalping meaning, how ticket scalpers get tickets before fans, and the bot tactics behind resale markups — plus what venues can do about it.
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
Vite ignores local workspace packages because they sit outside its module graph — the config trick that forces Vite to rebuild sibling npm packages.
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
Switching From reCAPTCHA to Prosopo: What's Involved
What changes when you swap reCAPTCHA for Prosopo — integration surface, verdict shape, GDPR posture, and what your team sees in the dashboard.
Chris Taylor
Vite: How to handle `.node` files
Vite can't bundle `.node` native binaries — it treats them as raw JS and blows up. Our custom rollup plugin that copies `.node` files through the build.
George Oastler
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.
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
Traffic lights, cars and crosswalks in reCAPTCHA are not random — you've been labelling training data for Google's self-driving cars for a 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 🪄
TypeScript mapped types can make Cat === Dog — a weird paradox. How to brand identical structural types so the compiler can tell them apart.
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 Price Hike: What Changed in 2024 & What It Broke
Google's 2024 reCAPTCHA change cut the free tier from 1M to 10K requests/month. What actually changed, why it stung SMBs, and where teams moved next.
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
Procaptcha vs Google reCAPTCHA — decentralised, GDPR-clean and free at low volume vs the US data harvester. Which one actually protects your web forms.
Hugh Parry
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.
Chris Taylor
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.
Chris Taylor
