reCAPTCHA and China

[aur...@hostinger.com]

Hi,

We am running a service where we have customers in China. We use noCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA to keep many kinds of bots in line and limit the attacks against our service. We have been very happy with the product.

We have started to get feedback from our Chinese users that the CAPTCHA does not work (as it cannot load JS files from Google servers). Google front end servers are blocked and/or greatly slowed down by the great firewall of China.

I am asking for the advice how to mitigate the issue

- Is there a way to proxy reCAPTCHA requests somehow through our front-end servers, so that Chinese users would not need to face Google servers? I am pretty sure reCAPTCHA is doing some logic related to user IP addresses, so this surely would mess it up. Thus I'd like to hear an opinion of actual reCAPTCHA developer here.

- If this is not possible (which I suspect) what alternatives there are for reCAPTCHA we could use for verifying Chinese humans?

Thanks

[Kelly F.]

We have the same problem with Chinese users being unable to register because we have added reCAPTCHA. Did you find a solution to your problem? I am interested to hear how others addressed the problem.

[James]

Experiencing the same problem here. I think the only way to work around this is to use an alternative captcha service, but I would be interested to hear about other possible solutions.

[Robert Slaney]

Hey reCaptcha devs... is there any update to this.  We need a captcha solution for our china user base.