V4.1.x CAPTCHA alternative

[metrony +]

I was on a car forum a few weeks ago and they were using a clever alternative to the CAPTCHA system. Instead of the standard captcha image the user is shown an ad with some text in it. They would then fill in what they see in the ad as opposed the scrambled text in the standard captcha system.

The company is called 'Solve Media' and their site is solvemedia.com should you want to see a demo. What I really like about it is that their captcha system is a revenue stream like Adsense.

In any event, I was wondering if any of the programmers on the forum would be interested in creating a module for 68C that uses the Solve Media captcha. There already is a reCaptcha module so I'm wondering if it would be easy to just repurpose that one.

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

This looks very interesting and is certainly a unique alternative to the standard captcha's out there. My biggest concern with something of this nature, since it is actually advertising is what is shared with solve media AND more importantly what solve media shares with the advertisers. They don't seem to answer these questions anywhere on their site.

In this day and age of privacy concerns, this is extremely important and in this particular instance being "attached" to contact forms where you are collecting personal information (e.g. names, emails, IP addresses, etc.) it is important to know exactly what your site is sharing with others. It would also be a concern as to what solve media allows for the advertisers as well (e.g. sending cookies for tracking, localities, etc.). I for one would certainly not want to unknowingly share information with third parties or expose my customers to injection of tracking, malware, etc. that could make my site liable.

[seymourjames +]

It is brilliant. it is simply a fantastic idea in terms of getting branding across. If it could pop a page to the advertisers site even better.


I agree with Mike about privacy but hey there is facebook and google. Everything is tracked. Even your ISP is tracking you and in most of the world at least, every ISP has to keep archives of emails, sites you visited etc.