Although we recognize that it serves an important purpose, everybody hates Captcha challenges (especially the ones that say “Click on the pictures that have a ____ in them”). Cloudflare has created an alternative to Captcha. They say that it’s easier than Captcha, but protects your site just as well as Captcha. They call this new system Turnstile.

Easier for humans; just as hard for bots. That’s a winning recipe. But it gets even better.

They have made their Turnstile system free for all websites to use. You don’t have to sign up for any services from Cloudflare to use it. As they put it, “We’ve decoupled Turnstile from our platform so that any website operator on any platform can use it just by adding a few lines of code.” In their post, they link to the code (they are right to call it “just a few lines”) you need to add to make it work on your site.

Learn more here:

Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone

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