The EU has released an open source CAPTCHA solution

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/news/eu-captcha-under-eupl-12

Is it open source? If no, proton can suck my stroganoff.

Edit: The official subreddit of Proton says that it is a proprietary CAPTCHA system. Great.

I'd be much happier if they'd finish building Drive to have auto-upload like every. other. cloud. service.

We keep hearing "small team" so why do they keep adding half-done products and services?

Other than making the web tedious to use, my biggest CAPTCHA complaint is that it puts the main providers in a position to monitor everyone's web use. The blog post doesn't address that, but it does say this:

No third-party services

Perhaps they mean it's self-hosted? That would be very welcome. It might require open source code to catch on, since many site owners are uncomfortable running mystery code on our servers. That would be very welcome, too.

Here's hoping it's good.

New captcha designs should require you to beat a dark souls boss

This is amazing. Great to have more alternatives to Google's crap

No third-party services

Support for alternative routing

(following link)

alternative routing requires us to use third-party infrastructure and networks we do not control

huh

Nice, but captchas are never a good measure to avoid bots, only to annoying users, apart from spying them, if it is from Google. Long before AI, bots could solve captchas better than humans. It is a clearly obsolete method. Apart the system used by Proton is impossible for blind users, Google captcha at least had an auditive captcha too.

I often won't touch websites with captcha as its used to train ai for google so if I see open source captcha solutions of which I doubt I will see as often as id like as googles strong hold

But proton keep up the good work