ReCAPTCHA

I need to think about it a bit more; currently, only ReCAPTCHA v3 is being used. ReCAPTCHA v2 is the one with a security test. My goal was to use the latest version and only the version, if possible, to make things lighter. It would be interesting to see how accurate and good ReCAPTCHA v3 actually is, if it’s perfect, then it’s all good. Otherwise, we would basically all need to go back to v2.

hey a visitor told me that he can’t use the form because he was blocked.

It would be awesome to have an option in case the visitor is blocked, then when he receives the message that says he’s blocked, then the option would be to let him click onto another link that redirect to another form using ReCAPTCHA V2.
it could be another plugin in V2 or just an option.
this is just an idea,
I’m going to know try which device and setup used visitor when he was blocked.

bye

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by blogzilla.

Another idea could be to ask a custom question and if the visitor send the good answer, it desactivates the ReCaptcha.

This option could be used without Recaptcha or with a Recaptcha to face out the case where the visitor is blocked by Repatcha

As we say in french:
“What is the color of the white horse of Henri 4” ?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by blogzilla.

Hi @zkotito,

I am not really for an alternative to ReCaptcha, for two reasons:

1. This plugin focuses on being as light as possible, and using the best methods ?? And basically, ReCaptcha is supposed to be the best. Probably my/our method will not be as good as Google’s one.

2. A form with a question is really easy to hack, especially if it’s a common solution (and which is why it’s not used anymore, it used to be). If you are the only one to use it, however, it could be interesting (but only for you). In this case, you could copy/paste the ReCaptcha file in the plugin and modify it. If you have some time to play with this, you could integrate the security exactly the way you like it. But this would have to be only for you, if it’s released officially and for many users, then it becomes really easy to hack and bots will look for that.

About an option for Captcha v2:

Indeed, ReCaptcha 3 is mysterious in a way, so having an option for Recaptcha 2 would be nice too. I believe v3 will work better and better and it will the method we all use. Meanwhile, I will try to add Captcha v2 as an option.

Another thing (about the ReCaptcha score):

In the code of ReCaptcha in my plugin, you will find this line of code:

$recaptcha->score >= 0.5

Feel free to change the value… to something like 0.01. If you start getting spam, raise it to something higher, until you don’t get anything. That would be interesting to see the results, so please don’t hesitate to share ??

PS: Don’t hesitate to edit your first message into “ReCaptcha v3 and/or ReCaptcha v2”. That way, other users could come here and share ideas or comments.

Thanks for explanations.
I’m not able to edit my original post ??

It’s okay ?? I was just trying to optimize the content of the Support Threads, haha.