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Bot protection and CAPTCHAs

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Apache-2.0

Cap is a self-hosted tool that checks whether a visitor is a real person without showing puzzles or tracking them. It is for website owners who want to keep bots and AI crawlers off their sites.

Has 2 of 6 · Protects a whole site, no code changes ✗

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Windows · LinuxMITReplaces partly

Anubis is a tool that sits in front of a website and blocks automated bots and AI scrapers that flood it with requests. It is meant for website operators, especially small sites, who cannot or will not use Cloudflare for protection.

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AGPL-3.0

mCaptcha is a free system that checks whether a visitor is a person or a bot, without the image puzzles people usually have to solve. It is for website owners who want to keep bots and automated crawlers off their sites.

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Windows · Mac · LinuxMITReplaces partly

A free code library and command-line tool that creates and checks small computing puzzles, which help tell real visitors apart from bots on a website. It is for programmers who build website protection.

Has 0 of 6 · Protects a whole site, no code changes ✗ +1

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