Guest Post: Hello Friendly Captcha

With Friendly Captcha you can make privacy friendly and human-friendly bot-protection a thing again!

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Bendict Padberg

Benedict an his Co-Founder Guido work hard to make Captchas accessible again, while also focusing on privacy!
A Captcha that states "I'm not a robot", with "Friendly Captcha" in the corner. Three features are listet underneath: Made in Europe, GDPR complient, Proven Accessibility

Like TelemetryDeck, Friendly Captcha is committed to protecting user's privacy, and our HQ locations are only 70 km apart. From time to time, our founders talk virtually or in person.

Daniel, Benedict, and Lisa

More than enough reasons to introduce Friendly Captcha, the GDPR-compliant CAPTCHA.

Just like an intelligent analytics tool, almost any interactive application needs good bot protection. Both need to stay secure and comply with regulatory requirements such as GDPR.

Friendly Captcha says hello to a new era of bot protection and goodbye to annoying verification processes. Friendly Captcha makes web interactions hard for bots and easy for humans. As the European CAPTCHA alternative, they provide bot protection that is privacy-friendly, and most of all friendly to humans. No one will ever have to manually perform a task like clicking on traffic lights or cars.

Founded by Benedict Padberg and Guido Zuidhof, Friendly Captcha creates a safe internet accessible for everyone. By challenging devices rather than people with their CAPTCHA, Friendly Captcha achieves this goal. With this new approach, Friendly Captcha runs on proof-of-work mechanisms and advanced risk signals. This is how it protects websites and online services from spam and bots.

Benedict Padberg and Guido Zuidhof standing next to each other in a public space with a few trees in the background. They wear busniess attire, and smile into the camera.

Taking CAPTCHA a Step Further

From the very beginning, Friendly Captcha has shown that it is possible to be on the good side and compete with one of the biggest tech giants in the world: Google. Its CAPTCHA solution Google reCAPTCHA is not GDPR-compliant, fails to protect private data, and provides a poor user experience with annoying image recognition tasks. Friendly Captcha follows a completely different approach. The widget code is open source and available to all users. This always ensures transparency and flexibility for everyone. It is therefore a superior alternative to reCAPTCHA.

FriendlyCaptcha Documentation, highlighting the JavaScript API section

A GDPR Compliant and Secure CAPTCHA – How It Works

Privacy is the business model of Friendly Captcha. They do not track users and exploit their personal data. Their GDPR-compliant CAPTCHA is built on this principle. Friendly Captcha works without HTTP cookies or persistent browser storage, does not require user consent, and is fully WCAG compliant.

Friendly Captcha dashboard view on the Account Usage Stats.

The Journey to a Safer Internet

Use Friendly Captcha to safeguard your web forms such as contact forms, logins, and registration pages from malicious bots and attacks. By choosing Friendly Captcha, you are not only getting a tool to protect your applications, but you are also aligning yourself with a vision of a safer, more accessible Internet.

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