https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/captcha/Recent content in Captcha on Pi StackHugoen-usThu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/self-hosted-captcha-alternatives-mcaptcha-hcaptcha-turnstile-friendlycaptcha-guide-2026/Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/self-hosted-captcha-alternatives-mcaptcha-hcaptcha-turnstile-friendlycaptcha-guide-2026/<p>Every website with a public-facing form faces the same problem: how do you tell humans from bots without making legitimate users suffer through impossible image puzzles? For over a decade, Google reCAPTCHA has been the default answer. But reCAPTCHA tracks users across the web, sends behavioral data to Google&rsquo;s servers, and adds third-party network requests to every page it appears on.</p>