{"id":6185,"date":"2018-05-10T13:06:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qeretail.com\/blog\/?p=6185"},"modified":"2018-05-11T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T11:33:52","slug":"upgrade-google-recaptcha-v2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qeretail.com\/blog\/upgrade-google-recaptcha-v2","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade To Google reCAPTCHA V2 Right Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Google reCaptcha v1 API has shut down on March 31, 2018.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If you own a website which has a form, forum or any such sort of user engagement feature then it is very likely that you must have a Google reCaptcha integrated on your website.<\/p>\n<p>If yes, then this certainly needs your attention.<\/p>\n<p>As per the Google\u2019s official blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Any calls to the v1 API will not work after March 31, 2018. Starting in November 2017, a percentage of reCAPTCHA v1 traffic will begin to show a notice informing users that the old API will soon be retired.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>What are these CAPTCHAs <em>exactly<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Technically CAPTCHA is a <strong>C<\/strong>ompletely <strong>A<\/strong>utomated <strong>P<\/strong>ublic <strong>T<\/strong>uring Test To Tell <strong>C<\/strong>omputers and <strong>H<\/strong>umans <strong>A<\/strong>part.<\/p>\n<p>In layman terms, Google reCaptcha is a free service which fights and stops bots from spamming your website with fake inquiries or forum spamming etc. It differentiates humans and bots by using machine learning and advanced risk analysis.<\/p>\n<p>A small yet very powerful feature to protect websites from spam attacks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If your Google reCAPTCHA is not working or showing an error probably you haven\u2019t yet updated to Google reCaptcha V2<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Expired Version: V1<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qeretail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"CAPTCHA\" width=\"525\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qeretail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Picture1.png 525w, https:\/\/www.qeretail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Picture1-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>What is reCAPTCHA V2?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>reCaptcha V2 is the latest working version which ensures an improved user experience and better equipped to prevent spam.<\/p>\n<div style=\"\n    text-align:  center;\n\"><a class=\"help_me_upgrade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qeretail.com\/services\/store-front\">Help Me Upgrade To reCAPTCHA v2<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>There are 3 options for upgrade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 22px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">1. Google reCaptcha V2<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>reCAPTCHA v2 requires the user to click on a checkbox which justifies that the user is not a robot or a spamming machine.<\/p>\n<p>There are two probabilities after this, it will either pass the user immediately (No CAPTCHA) or it will further challenge them to validate whether or not they are human.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 0; padding-bottom: 27%; position: relative;\"><iframe class=\"giphy-embed\" style=\"position: absolute;\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/10p3VEnw29dD44\" width=\"50%\" height=\"50%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">2. Invisible reCAPTCHA<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8216;Invisible reCAPTCHA&#8217; does not require the user to click on a checkbox like the previous one. instead, it is kickstarted as soon as the user clicks on an existing button on the website or gets invoked via a JavaScript API call.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6190 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qeretail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Picture3.png\" alt=\"Invisible reCAPTCHA\" width=\"381\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">3. reCAPTCHA Android<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If you own an App on playstore reCaptcha Android will help you to protect your app from spam an automated traffic. You can integrate it on your android apps and prevent malicious traffic.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Need assistance to upgrade to Google reCaptcha V2? It can be fixed in few minutes. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qeretail.com\/services\/store-front\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Place an order<\/a><\/span><\/span> to upgrade at QeRetail now and get it upgraded in a matter of minutes.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google reCaptcha v1 API has shut down on March 31, 2018. If you own a website which has a form, forum or any such sort of user engagement feature then it is very likely that you must have a Google reCaptcha integrated on your website. If yes, then this certainly needs your attention. 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