🆚 Friendly Captcha vs. Yandex SmartCaptcha
- 📈 Yandex SmartCaptcha is as popular as Friendly Captcha.
- 🌍 Yandex SmartCaptcha is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
- 🌍 Friendly Captcha is more popular in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands.
Friendly Captcha
Yandex SmartCaptchaType
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.
Yandex SmartCaptcha is a captcha and bot protection service from the Russian technology company Yandex.
It analyzes requests using behavioral and risk-based signals, supports invisible verification that challenges only suspicious users, and offers multiple challenge types including checkboxes, sliders, text recognition, silhouettes, and kaleidoscope puzzles.
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Popularity
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Popularity by country
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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.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Captchas category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Spam Protection category.
Popularity by domain category
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Yandex company profile🗃️ 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 3,629,123 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.