Market share of 'hCaptcha', which competes with Google's reCAPTCHA, exceeds 15%

Google's reCAPTCHA is famous for the bot detection system ' CAPTCHA ', but various companies and organizations other than Google provide CAPTCHA. One of them, hCaptcha , reports that it has gained the largest market share of 15% for CAPTCHAs offered by companies other than Google.

hCaptcha Is Now the Largest Independent CAPTCHA Service, Runs on 15% Of The Internet
https://www.hcaptcha.com/post/hcaptcha-now-the-largest-independent-captcha-service

CAPTCHA is a system that uses image authentication to identify humans or bots by reading and inputting the characters of Gnyagnya and selecting multiple images according to the presented theme.

ReCAPTCHA provided by Google is a CAPTCHA that started as a part of improving the accuracy of image recognition in e-book conversion, and at the time of article creation, version 3 reCAPTCHA v3 has been released.

Introducing the new 'reCAPTCHA v3' bot exclusion tool, which has evolved to eliminate the need for user work by introducing it to all pages --GIGAZINE

However, in early 2020 Google planned to charge for reCAPTCHA offerings. In response to this, Cloudflare, which provides CDN services, announced that it will move from reCAPTCHA to hCAPTCHA services in April 2020.

Migrating from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha
https://blog.cloudflare.com/jp/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptcha-jp/

According to hCAPTCHA, most of the approximately 15% market share gained by hCAPTCHA services and BotStop was taken directly from reCAPTCHA. hCAPTCHA expects its share to grow as Google learns that reCAPTCHA is being considered for a fee and many companies have forgotten reCAPTCHA and started switching to another CAPTCHA service.

In addition, hCaptcha said, 'Google's reCAPTCHA consumes a huge amount of behavior data to determine whether the user is a human or a bot.' 'The security products provided by the advertising company Google are very advertising products. It's very similar, 'he said, saying that the hCaptcha service was chosen because of its superior privacy, while having comparable bot detection performance.

In addition, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California's Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have added to the need for more privacy protection, which has led companies to choose the hCaptcha service over reCAPTCHA. HCaptcha expects it to increase.

In fact, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince chose the hCAPTCHA service as an alternative to reCAPTCHA because he said, 'Don't sell personal data,' ' A / B testing showed better performance,' and 'Accessibility such as visual impairment.' Having a robust solution for users with difficulty, 'supporting privacy paths to reduce the frequency of CAPTCHAs,' 'working in areas where Google is blocked,' 'hCaptcha team is keen It was quick and comfortable. '