hostily Captcha
Introduction
hostily Captcha protects your Joomla forms from spam bots without puzzles, image grids or tracking. Visitors tick a box (or nothing at all in invisible mode) while their browser solves a small proof-of-work task in the background. The service is operated and hosted in Germany, sets no cookies and is GDPR-friendly.
The plugin uses Joomla's built-in captcha interface. Select "hostily Captcha" as Default Captcha in the Global Configuration and it protects every form Joomla secures with a captcha: contact forms, user registration, password and username reminders, and the privacy request form.
Features:
- Visible mode (checkbox) or invisible mode (solved on submit)
- Widget language follows the site language (German/English) or can be fixed
- Configurable behaviour if the service is unreachable: let submissions through (default) or block them; every incident is logged without the secret
- The secret key stays on the server, never in the page
- Updates through the Joomla updater
- Tested with Joomla 4.4, 5.4 and 6.2
Setup: create a free project at captcha.hostily.de, add your domain, install the plugin, enter site key and secret, enable it and choose it as Default Captcha.
hostily Captcha schuetzt Joomla-Formulare vor Spam-Bots - ohne Raetsel, Bilderraster oder Tracking. Besucher setzen einen Haken (im unsichtbaren Modus nicht einmal das), waehrend der Browser im Hintergrund eine kleine Rechenaufgabe loest. Der Dienst wird in Deutschland betrieben, setzt keine Cookies und ist DSGVO-freundlich. Das Plugin nutzt die eingebaute Captcha-Schnittstelle von Joomla: als Standard-Captcha gewaehlt, schuetzt es Kontaktformulare, Registrierung, Passwort-/Benutzername-vergessen und Datenschutzanfragen.
hostily Captcha
- Version:
- 0.1.1
- Developer:
- Mathias Janssen
- Last updated:
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Nov 04 2026
19 hours ago - Date added:
- Oct 30 2026
- License:
- GPLv2 or later
- Type:
- Free download
- Includes:
- p
- Compatibility:
- J4 J5 J6
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