Opened 3 years ago
Closed 3 years ago
#17179 closed task (fixed)
Get rid of Google Captcha on Trac
| Reported by: | jt15s | Owned by: | nielx |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Sys-Admin | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
Multiple users have complained about having to go through Google Captcha to create a Trac account, thus it would be better to get rid of Google Captcha and have an alternate captcha provider.
One solution that has been suggested is to have a question asking "What operating system are you reporting bugs for?" (the answer obviously being Haiku).
Thanks!
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 3 years ago
comment:2 by , 3 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
The new question seems to be catching nearly all spam. We probably should still have a captcha to prevent spambots, but indeed it seems we can switch off of Google reCaptcha, and instead use one of the other captcha options.
nielx, any chance you might have a few minutes look into the other captcha options TracSpamFilter supports, and enable one of them? Otherwise I will look into it next week.
comment:3 by , 3 years ago
The options can be found here: https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter#Captcha Which one do we want to go for? Alternatively with some dev work we can connect to another service.
comment:4 by , 3 years ago
We can try just the "image captcha" method I suppose, that seems simplest.
comment:5 by , 3 years ago
| Milestone: | Unscheduled |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | assigned → closed |
| Version: | R1/beta3 |
I have enabled the image captcha option, but I cannot seem to test it. So I am considering this fixed until we hear otherwise.
I added a question. We'll see how much of the spam it traps vs. how much gets to the captcha...