Proposal to add Prosopo as a captcha vendor option

  • Resolved 1prosopo

    (@1prosopo)


    1 month ago

    Hello ibericode Team!

    We hope this message finds you well.

    We are the team behind Prosopo, a CAPTCHA solution focused on providing a privacy-friendly
    alternative to Google reCAPTCHA. We believe our solution would be a great addition to your plugin, offering users privacy-conscious form protection.

    Would you be open to reviewing and accepting a pull request that adds Prosopo as an available form protection option?

    The PR will adhere to WordPress Coding Standards and align seamlessly with your plugin’s existing
    architecture.

    Look forward to hearing your thoughts.

    Best regards,
    The Prosopo Team

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  • Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    Hello Prosopo,

    Great timing. We have been looking for a captcha solution that does not depend on Google and were thinking of offering an official hCaptcha integration. What makes your service more privacy friendly than hCaptcha? Just curious – anything that doesn’t use humans to train their AI is a big plus in my book.

    Anyway, I’d love to review a PR that adds this to MC4WP. I might revise it a bit once we get to offering built-in support for hCaptcha just so our users have a choice, but besides that I think there’d be a lot of benefit for the both of us as the need in our userbase is certainly there.

    Best,
    Danny

    Hi Danny,

    Chris, Founder @ Prosopo here. Thanks for the positive response!

    Our solution is open source, unlike hcaptcha’s, so you can dive into the code and verify for yourself that we’re not tracking. A quick dive into hcaptcha’s obfuscated code reveals that they’re sending up my chrome extensions in their payload. They also use notification permissions, browser voice hash, webgl properties hash, css properties list, timezone data, windows properties, etc.

    The only information we receive are the HTTP headers that are necessary for making requests and a score of the user’s likiliehood of being a bot. The score is computed on the client side using the JS environment and obfuscated before being sent to our captcha providers. We don’t use the collected data for training.

    We’ll get started on a PR right away and update you when there’s something to review.

    Happy to answer any more questions you might have in the meantime.

    Cheers,

    Chris

    Thread Starter 1prosopo

    (@1prosopo)

    Hello Danny,

    An update: the pull request is ready for your review.

    Plugin Contributor Lap

    (@lapzor)

    @1prosopo thanks a ton for the pull request! As you know it’s implemented into the Mailchimp for WordPress plugin by now and it works wonderfully with a free or paid Prosopo account!

    We really appreciate your efforts and contribution.

    The captcha integration is now available under MC4WP > Integrations > Procaptcha (by Prosopo)

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