moderated hCaptcha Described and Explained
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Mike B.
Hi All,
Learned about this CAPTCHA solving program and
thought some of you might be interested in it.
How hCaptcha Difficulty Settings
Work
hCaptcha
Apr 3, 2020·2 min read
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hCaptcha has several difficulty modes
available for publishers to choose. Today we’ll look at what they do, and the
tradeoffs of picking each one.
Note: this post refers to options available to
standard hCaptcha users. Enterprise users and platform integrators have more
options available. Please see
BotStop.com
or contact sales@... to learn more. Setting Difficulty per Site(key)
First, let’s navigate to the difficulty
slider. You have one per sitekey, and can use sitekeys to target difficulty as
needed.
You can use this feature to customize behavior
on different sections of your site by simply creating more sitekeys with
different settings.
For example, your password reset page might be
Always On to reduce abuse, while a form to sign up for a mailing list might be
Easy to provide a better
user experience. Unlabeled 0
The difficulty slider You can find this in the Sites tab of the
dashboard:
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Under Settings for each Sitekey.
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How Difficulty Modes Affect
Behavior
Easy
Choosing this option provides a classic
CAPTCHA experience, delivering a standard “easy” challenge for most users, most
of the time.
Choosing Easy will filter the captcha types
shown, generally showing those that most users can complete in a few
seconds.
Moderate
This option will select more difficult
challenge types as necessary to reach a higher confidence in user
humanity.
Difficult
This option will show more difficult challenge
types than Easy or Moderate as well.
Always On
This option will never auto-pass, and will
show more difficult challenge types similar to the Difficult
setting.
How to Choose
In general we suggest that you choose the
lowest setting that remains effective at meeting your security goals, as
minimizing user frustration is the thing
we all want to achieve. Additional options for Enterprise
Users
Enterprise users also have a wide range of
additional options, including:
99.9% Passive
This option will auto-pass most low-risk users
most of the time, but will start to show challenges in a variety of
circumstances depending on your settings.
Please see the enterprise documentation for details. Passive
This option is a pure “No-CAPTCHA” experience:
it will never show a visual challenge, but will always return a bot score to
you. Please see the enterprise
documentation for details. More info on hCaptcha Enterprise features is
available at BotStop.com. article end
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