Question 1:
How can I add CAPTCHA to my website? The instructions say to enter my website domain, but my website ends with .rf.gd or .gt.tc, and it doesn’t seem to recognize these domains. How can I solve this?
Question 2:
How can I use Cloudflare with my website? When I try to set it up, it asks for my domain, but it doesn’t recognize domains ending with .rf.gd or .gt.tc. Is there a way to make it work with these domains?
Getting a custom domain will require some bucks and may not be the answer you are looking for. But unfortunately there aren’t any workarounds.
As for your first question, you could try the open source aCAPTCHA, which works client side and only requires adding its files to your site to use it.
reCAPTCHA seems to be pretty dead right now. The original website recaptcha.net is down, when I search for it, I get a page on developers.google.com which says “This page is deprecated, see reCAPTCHA Enterprise”, which goes to a page about Google Cloud Fraud Defense. They also capped their free offering a long time ago.
We use Cloudflare Turnstile on our website, which works basically the same, is more user friendly (no image clicking) and is completely free without limits.
Note that you don’t need to use Cloudflare’s DNS or proxy services to use Turnstile. They do push for it of course, but you can add a “custom hostname” to the Turnstile widget and use your free subdomain there.
Yeah, it’s very weird. It has migrated into the Google cloud developer console and works as an API now (even though functionally it appears to be the same). I really don’t like Google’s approach of having a new tools have some unique UI, then migrating it into a different system and change how everything is displayed.
I’ve been using reCAPTCHA mostly because turnstile was not the best when it was first introduced, but have slowly begun migrating sites over as keys expire. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to create a new reCAPTCHA site in less time then reconfiguring a site to use Cloudflare’s solution.
I tried Turnstile when it was first released here and it didn’t work for many people. That doesn’t really seem to be the case anymore now.
The integration is basically identical to reCAPTCHA v2. And so is hCaptcha for that matter, but hCaptcha is much more annoying with image clicking.
Don’t get me started on reCAPTCHA v3. I have no idea who thought that that’s something website owners would want.
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