Update – 16th March 2020 – Sadly this plugin and the “Are You a Human” website is no longer available.
I’ve noticed a lot of automated registrations on my blog recently (despite using Akismet to deter spam). Deleting these fake user accounts every few days has become a pain in the neck. This reminded me of plugin that I read about last year which claims to be more effective than CAPTCHAs and can help deter automated user registrations on your site.
The Are You A Human plug-in helps to distinguish humans from bots in a more enjoyable way than forcing users to read images of corrupted words. The games are simple, mildly amusing and according to the Are You a Human website, are generally faster than a text CAPTCHA.
Are You A Human plug-ins are available for WordPress, Drupal, Joomnla, nodeJS, phpBB, PHP, dotNet, Java and others so the chances are it could be used on your site if you have this problem.
I installed it in about 5 minutes on my site and it seems to work really well. Click on the image below for a demo of this in action. Alternatively try to post a comment below and use it “for real”.
