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4.5

ConfidentCAPTCHA //

A Better Way To Screen Out Spambots

Thursday, June 3, 2010

CAPTCHAs are an essential weapon in the war against spam. Without them, you’re basically leaving your site open to a tsunami of comments about Russian pharmaceuticals, porn, and “that particular model” of sneaker. But traditional CAPTCHAs are kind of annoying for users-the distorted text may foil bots, but it’s sometimes hard for people to read, too.

ConfidentCAPTCHA is an elegant solution. Instead of requiring users to enter text, it uses pictures to make verifying your humanity into an appealing little game: just follow the instructions and select the pictures that ConfidentCAPTCHA tells you to. No more guessing whether that’s an uppercase X or a lower-case x.

ConfidentCAPTCHA offers a 30-day free trial, after which the service is priced according to how much traffic you get. Low traffic websites can use the service free of charge; sites with more traffic will pay $9.95/month or more.

Installation instructions are included and it looks like it should be relatively simple to set up, provided you are PHP-savvy, which I am not. I can haz WordPress plug-in plz?

What do you think of ConfidentCAPTCHA?

Our Rating of ConfidentCAPTCHA

User Interface

4.5 stars

Usefulness

4 stars

Innovation

5 stars

Cost:

Varies

Overall Rating:

4.5

Categories:web

6 Responses on ConfidentCAPTCHA

  1. the problem is that half of them are unreadable by actual people

  2. Thanks for the review!

    We will have easy to use plugins for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and others coming out very soon (over the next couple weeks). Please look for them.

    Response to our CAPTCHA has been very good so far, and in an effort to increase adoption even more, we’re offering the free subscription for even longer. Anybody who signs up during the next 60 days will receive a free one year subscription to use Confident CAPTCHA on their website(s). Simply register for the free account on our website to access the API.

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