GDPR and recaptcha = big problem now in EU

  • Resolved Artan

    (@artankrasniqi1988)


    2 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    guy from Germany here. As the European Union is tightening its grip on data protection, there should be an option to disable recaptcha completely.

    At the moment I removed the key, but it seems it still is setting cookies. Problem is really now, that lawsuits could get in, as GDPR makes it totally clear, that no user data can be send to servers (USA) without consent. And we sadly now, that google does that… A LOT.

    I really hope you make it easy for us to remove recaptcha via checkbox or something. Otherwise there will be a problem to use it in future or we have to somehow crawl into the codes to remove or block it. Would really love to use your awesome plugin also in future! ??

    That would be really nice of you! And thx for your great work.

    Regards!

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  • Hey, artankrasniqi1988, I’m another CF7 user.

    Try using the following code (with a plugin like Code Snippets or using your functions.php theme file; also test on a staging site if you can!), but note that I haven’t tried it in production:

    function wpcf7_dequeue_redundant_scripts() {
        wp_dequeue_script( 'wpcf7-recaptcha' );     
        wp_dequeue_script( 'google-recaptcha' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'wpcf7_dequeue_scripts', 99 );
    Thread Starter Artan

    (@artankrasniqi1988)

    Hi,

    sorry for the late reply. It seems when u delete the keys in CF7 in the fields in WordPress, that reCAPTCHA is gone. Perhaps it was still showing up because of CDN or other caching tools.

    Still thx for your help!

    Regards

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