⚡ Spam Protection in Hong Kong

Anti-spam software is a variety of tools that protect websites from automated bots and malicious content.

Hong Kong is an East Asian special administrative region of China with a population of around 7.5 million people.

According to our statistics, spam protection software is used on 13.8% of websites from Hong Kong.

Statistics based on 16K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top spam protection software in Hong Kong in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is hCaptcha with an impressive share of 37.2%, followed by reCAPTCHA with 32.3% and Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 31.9%.

hCaptcha 37.2%
reCAPTCHA 32.3%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 31.9%
Cloudflare Turnstile 5.8%
Akismet 0.9%
CleanTalk 0.7%
Altcha 0.7%
Tencent Captcha 0.7%
GeeTest 0.4%
MTCaptcha 0.4%
Yidun Captcha 0.2%
Friendly Captcha 0.04%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top solutions that is more popular in Hong Kong than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. hCaptcha ^(-2)
7. Altcha ^(-2)
8. Tencent Captcha ^(-3)
9. GeeTest ^(-1)
10. MTCaptcha ^(-2)
11. Yidun Captcha ^(-2)

✨ Best Spam Protection Software

Below is a more detailed list of 12 spam protection software solutions used on sites from Hong Kong, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	hCaptcha San Francisco, California, United States A security service for detecting and preventing human and automated abuse on websites and applications, often used as a drop-in alternative to reCAPTCHA. Free$99+/month	37.2%
2	reCAPTCHA Mountain View, California, United States A Google service that protects websites from spam, fraud, and automated abuse by distinguishing human users from bots. Free tier$8+/month	32.3%
3	Cloudflare Email Obfuscation San Francisco, California, United States A Cloudflare Scrape Shield security feature that encrypts email addresses in HTML to hide them from harvesting bots and keep them visible and clickable for human visitors. Free$25+/month	31.9%
4	Cloudflare Turnstile San Francisco, California, United States A user-friendly CAPTCHA alternative that verifies human visitors without requiring them to solve interactive puzzles or identify objects. Free$$$	5.8%
5	Akismet San Francisco, California, United States A comment spam filtering service originally developed for WordPress that can also be integrated with other CMS and forums. Free$14.95/month	0.9%
6	CleanTalk Carson City, Nevada, United States A cloud-based anti-spam service that protects websites from automated spam in online forms, comments, and registrations. $12+/year	0.7%
7	Altcha Brno, Czech Republic An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted captcha alternative that uses a proof-of-work mechanism to protect websites, APIs, and online services from spam and unwanted content. FreeOpen source€99+/month	0.7%
8	Tencent Captcha Shenzhen, China Provides web and app developers with comprehensive human verification services through slider CAPTCHAs. Free tier$0.005+	0.7%
9	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese bot management and CAPTCHA platform that uses behavioral analysis, machine learning, and device fingerprinting to distinguish human users from automated traffic. $$$	0.4%
10	MTCaptcha Mountain View, California, United States An enterprise captcha service that provides bot detection and human verification with a focus on GDPR compliance and accessibility. Free$29+/month	0.4%
11	Yidun Captcha Hangzhou, China A captcha service provided by the Chinese company NetEase.	0.2%
12	Friendly Captcha Woerthsee, Germany A European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility. Free€9+/month	0.04%

👉 See Also

🌎 Spam Protection in other countries

🗃️ 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 16,357 websites from Hong Kong.
We currently track the presence of 18 spam protection software solutions across the web.
Of these, 12 were detected on websites from Hong Kong.
Statistics were last calculated on September 27, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.