---
title: "Goodbye reCAPTCHA, hello Turnstile"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/goodbye-recaptcha-hello-turnstile-9ajxb2eg7
source_url: https://freek.dev/2838-goodbye-recaptcha-hello-turnstile
type: article
source: "FREEK.DEV"
published: 2025-04-02T12:45:52.984Z
updated: 2025-04-02T12:46:03.059Z
tags: ["tech-news", "security", "webdev", "php", "laravel"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 38
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Goodbye reCAPTCHA, hello Turnstile

**[FREEK.DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/freek)** · 1 min read · 38 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Explore reasons behind the transition from reCAPTCHA to Turnstile, highlighting the benefits of Turnstile for modern web applications and its integration with the Laravel framework. The post also mentions resources for PHP developers, including a newsletter containing tips, tutorials, and opinions with a focus on Laravel.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@andrei0x309** · 6 upvotes

> I prefer a normal CAPTCHA, like the hone from H-Captcha, which is probably the best.
>
> The thing with Cloudflare Turnstile is that it will have many false positives, especially on VPNs and heavy privacy browsers, and if it fails most times you'll not be able to access the resource without degrading the privacy.
>
> I understand that web service owners want a world without bots but that's not possible anymore, any sufficiently funded enough bot will pass all anti-scrapping measures.
>
> Bots should just be part of the cost. You either put a normal CAPTCHA( if the resource is critical) or just let...

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