🆚 Friendly Captcha vs. reCAPTCHA
- 📈 reCAPTCHA is much more popular than Friendly Captcha.
- 🌍 reCAPTCHA is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Friendly Captcha is particularly popular in Germany.
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About
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.
reCAPTCHA is a Google service that protects websites from spam, fraud, and automated abuse by distinguishing human users from bots.
It offers several versions, including v2 with an "I'm not a robot" checkbox and an invisible badge and v3 with background risk scoring.
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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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Captchas category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Captchas category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain 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.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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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 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
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