A self-hosted Google reCAPTCHA alternative (we ship it) (opens in new tab)

You know the one. You're trying to subscribe to a newsletter, and Google asks you to identify all the bicycles. You squint at the photo. You miss one pixel. You get a new grid, this time with motorcycles, and you start wondering if you're the bot. That's reCAPTCHA. It works, kind of. It also loads a JavaScript bundle from google.com on every page it appears on, ships your browsing behavior to Google's risk-scoring API, and gets flagged in nearly every cookie-compliance audit we've seen. The c...