Today is a great day at BotProof: after months of planning and tremendous effort, we have re-launched our website! We’ve focused our branding and products on CAPTCHA 2.0 with AdEmbed, making the site easier for publishers to sign up for the world’s best CAPTCHA (if we do say so ourselves!) — as well as creating more of a resource for advertisers looking for better, more effective ways to get their messages out.
For those looking for our breakthrough IT security product that protects “in use” data, CamoKey, visit our sister site Cernious.
So please poke around the site, let us know what you think, and by all means: sign up!
Our competitors’ CAPTCHAs, of which reCAPTCHA is probably the best known, are all static. That is, in comparison to our own animated CAPTCHAs, the codes you see do not move. And therein lies their weakness.
Bots use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to defeat CAPTCHAs. Our competitors fight this by distorting their CAPTCHAs, making it harder for you and I to read. And as bots evolve, our competitors have no choice but to distort their CAPTCHAs even further.
reCAPTCHA is no different — ever try to read their CAPTCHA while trying to buy a time-limited commodity (e.g. concert tickets)? Grrrr…don’t get me started!
It’s simply an unsustainable approach to CAPTCHAs.
But here’s what’s even more interesting: the opposite is also true. Google/reCAPTCHA just made changes so that their CAPTCHAs are easier to read (great for end users), but in doing so they instantly become less effective (bad for publishers and site admins).
To wit: as stated in an article entitled New Google CAPTCHAs Now Cracked, “Users now find the words easier to read – but so do machines.” In fact, security expert Jonathon Wilkins was able to increase the effectiveness of OCR on these easier-to-read CAPTCHAs by a full order of magnitude. Yikes.
Take a look at our animated CAPTCHAs: our approach does not sacrifice effectiveness for readability (and vice versa). And heck, with our AdEmbed service, we’ll even pay you to use it!
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Hello, the new site looks great! I am very pleased with the captcha I’ve been using on my WordPress blog. No spambot posts, and users find it easy to read.
Recently, I discovered that I could customize the colors of the captcha using botproof.net. Awesome! I wish you had made that a little easier to figure out, since it took me some research and experimentation to get it right. But I was happy with the results.
Comment by Victor Zeno — February 1, 2010 @ 9:12 pm
Victor: thank you for the kind review! I appreciate you finding the need for better documentation. I’ll make sure our development team works on creating an easier way to find the support documentation and configuration options!
Comment by admin — February 10, 2010 @ 3:15 pm