March 21, 2022
Captchas are often used in forms to ensure that entries are made by humans.
Milestone 16 enables the use of external captchas for forms. Either Friendly Captcha or Google reCAPTCHA are supported. If an external provider is configured, the captchas in all forms are automatically replaced by the configured provider.
The Mercury template previously used a self-generated captcha. This is no longer up to date, as “form bots” are now able to overcome it. In the recent past, there have been incidents where forms using the old captcha were “flooded” with meaningless requests.
