🆚 Friendly Captcha vs. GeeTest
- 📈 Friendly Captcha is five times more popular than GeeTest.
- 🌍 Friendly Captcha is more popular in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands.
- 🌎 GeeTest is more popular in China, the United States, and Japan.
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Friendly Captcha is a European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility.
It uses a proof-of-work approach that runs in the background without image challenges or tracking cookies, complies with GDPR by avoiding personal data collection, works without user interaction in most cases, and supports WCAG accessibility requirements.
GeeTest is a Chinese bot management and CAPTCHA platform that uses behavioral analysis, machine learning, and device fingerprinting to distinguish human users from automated traffic.
It features adaptive challenge mechanisms that adjust verification methods based on risk levels, combines behavioral verification with risk scoring and account protection tools, and supports more than 70 languages.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Austria in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Switzerland in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Sweden in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in China in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in China in the Spam Protection category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Spam Protection category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,532,692 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
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