Mobile captcha - mCaptcha



    Six months ago, my friend and I launched our SMS mailing service. The service has long been familiar to everyone, and, thanks to the clubs, with a very controversial reputation. It makes no sense to talk about it, especially on Habré. Yes, and not about that now.

    The SMS distribution project SMM-project is functioning successfully. But we decided not to stop there and create a number of tools for the practical use of SMS gateway to simplify certain processes. We opened the API, giving developers the opportunity to integrate SMS distribution into their services, sites, programs. But they also decided to create a number of ready-made tools that are easy to use and do not require a serious “dopilka”.

    And just a few days ago, the first of these tools was launched.


    Articles on protecting sites from automated registrations, spam and bots have been published here more than once. A captcha in the form of a picture with distorted symbols becomes more and more vulnerable with the days. The number of types of captcha , amenable to automated recognition is increasing.

    An even greater distortion and confusion of the picture, of course, complicates the registration process, first of all, for real users, obviously playing not the usability weapon.

    On large resources, confirmation of actions on the site is gradually introduced using a mobile phone. But for small resources, this function remained very difficult to implement, since it required the presence of an SMS gateway, contracts with mobile operators and other technical details.

    Seeing all this, we decided to create a service that makes the implementation of the so-called mobile captcha as simple as possible for any Internet resources.

    The mCaptcha service that we launched does not require web developers to know the intricacies of sending SMS, or the need to install an SMS gateway. This part of the work is fully implemented on our side.

    Installing mCaptcha on a site does not require a lot of time, or outstanding programming knowledge. The installation process includes only a few steps.

    The principle of mCaptcha is shown in the diagram:



    We draw your attention to the fact that the service is at the testing stage. Instability in work is possible.

    We will be glad to consider any comments or suggestions regarding the work of the captcha.

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