Rating: 1 star
Causes spammy pop-ups to intermittently show up on sites where it’s installed, even when you don’t necessarily visit a page with a plugin. Apparently this is secretly embedded in their Terms of Use, based on the JavaScript that connects with an ad server… in other words, not hacked, just malware.
AVOID! There are better captcha solutions out there.
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They inject ads that make you download viruses that harm your browser and your computer. I thought was hacked!
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The plugin injects the site with malware. This may get your site banned from Google and all the major search engines. As I seen in other reviews, they inject the sites that have the plugin installed to monetize the plugin. My recommendation is to skip this one.
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Please be careful, this plugin has been hacked and is now malware. The malware was taking over the browser and showing a page with pop ups saying there was a security breach, to call a certain number to fix it. The latest URL used was https://www.firewallxalert.com.
It had one of my slower sites down for several days before I realized what was happening and cost the company a lot of business.
DO NOT USE THIS PLUGIN!
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Causes malware ads to pop up or under.
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/sweetcapcha-hacked-and-causing-malicious-popups?replies=9
Rating: 1 star
This plugin is a malware. Your website will opening pop-ups ads after installation !
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Maliciuos popups. Decreased my website’s revenue by 80% !!
& This is intentional!! As it can be seen in the terms 5.2 You acknowledge that within the sweetCAPTCHA service and/or sweetCAPTCHA API, There might be included 3rd party content which will be displayed for the purpose of user interaction. This content might include but will not be limited to ads, banners, links, search engine input fields and etc.
Be aware that this plugin costs more than it seems. YOU CAN GET YOUR WEBSITE BLACKLISTED BY GOOGLE! That means you lose everything you’ve built because of a CAPTCHA plugin.
I WARN YOU. DO NOT USE THIS PLUGIN.
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*not a self review, just an important info ??
If you have an issue with sweetCaptcha,
the best way is to let us know via email, why?
A. Tracking – we can make sure that you are heard and served asap.
B. Privacy- some time we need to ask you for your sweetCaptcha credentials,
we can’t do it here…
so please do the following:
1. if you have any issues with sweetCaptcha, please send us a mail to [email protected]
2. please provide a link to your site
(please don’t forget this detail),
if you have several sites, please send a list.
Thank you for supporting our FREE sweetCaptcha plugin,
Lara
sweetCaptcha Support Team
Rating: 1 star
SweetCaptcha YOU ARE LOWER THAN POND SCUM. Your plugin has been great but then you turn to hidden popup ad injection. Oh the profanities I want to throw at you right now.
AVOID AVOID UNINSTALL AND REPORT!!
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Please be aware that the plugin uses pop-under ads, if you see your website opening pop-ups then you know which plugin is causing it. You can see the ads here:
https://www.sweetcaptcha.com/api/v2/apps/csrf/99611?ver=3.1.0
Here is the javascript they load:
document.write('<scr'+'ipt type="text/javascript" src="//clktag[dot]com/adServe/banners?tid=SWTMPOP&tagid=2" async="async
Rating: 1 star
Do no install this plugin. We thought at first out client’s site was hacked as users would see random popup and popunder ads, but as it turns out, Sweet Captcha is injecting Javascript to monetize their plugin.
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Best plugin, every website needs this plugin! First thing i install when setting up a new WP for clients, get it! must have! comes with contact form to, get rid of those second rated contact forms and use this. A+++
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Every since updating, every site I have shows a broken image at the end of every page. It is trying to load //www.sweetcaptcha.com/api/v2/apps/csrfp/236613?t=1429157117613&mobile=0
Please fix this. The plugin is great, but this isn’t a good thing.
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Sometimes the picture is not loaded, and the plugin is not bad, I use with pleasure
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And also wasn’t able to delete my account on their website.
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Thank you for creating this plugin. Working well with WordPress 4.1, and self-child-theme, which is based on the TwentyTen theme with other plugins installed.
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использую для всех форм, как для входа в админку, так и в коментариях – вполне довольна результатом, не вешает и не тормозит сайт.
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There is a hidden code they use to monetize through errnio.
This adds a second search bar on the screen at mobile phones and slows down performance of the site dramatically.
It was never mentioned on terms and conditions.
Rating: 1 star
This plugin contains the following line in sweetcaptcha.php:
wp_enqueue_script(‘sweetcaptcha-csrf’, ‘//’.SWEETCAPTCHA_SITE_URL.’/api/v2/apps/csrf/’.$app_id, array(), $ver, true);
which loads an external JS file that adds a revenue raising search bar to your website when displayed on mobile devices.
The search bar appears under the address bar in mobile safari and contains the words “Search Web”. If used, your search is routed through https://www.errnio.com and https://www.trovi.com
I don’t believe this is mentioned anywhere in the documentation for the plugin, and I wouldn’t have installed it if i knew it was hijacking searches to raise money.
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Someone should get this off WordPress plugin list.
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I used to use Wpspam shield, akismet, and many other so called best anti-spam plugins, some of them didn’t even work, the others were hardware consuming or didn’t work properly, I’ve reach a part where I saw myself using like 4 antispam plugins at once that weren’t even preventing spam, some of othe ones I tried were even blocking normal users from posting comments. Then I found Sweet captcha, thx to Sweet Captcha I was able to get rid of all the garbage. It works like a charm and is as simple as drawing a circle.
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I use this plugin on all of my websites. It works great.
Just in case their server goes down, though, don’t put it on your login form.
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This little plugin is best thing I have found to make my WP admin easy instead of a pain. It completely stopped the user registration spam, the comment spam, and attacks on my admin login. It has literally saved me one hundred hours over the last 2-3 months.
Yes its a little funky in its native design, but its free and it f###ing works.
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A few months ago I raved about Sweet Captcha’s efficiency at blocking spam. I can no longer recommend it, all thanks to a sneaky and dangerous decision by its creators to serve pop-up and pop-under ads. Many of the ads contained malware, ransomware and other dangerous and disturbing content. I spent almost 2 days trying to locate the culprit, and it was this plug in. You can read more info at https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/06/sweetcaptcha-service-used-to-distribute-adware.html
My original review follows:
Fun and effective.
It’s a fun and effective captcha, blocking all bot/spam comments 100%.
Giving 4 stars because lately there has been downtime of the service. This is not a self-contained plugin and it requires connectivity to the remote server to function.
Rating: 2 stars
I decided to try other plugins when this one put up an annoying message on the top of admin pages saying setup was not complete. Also it required you to register.
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Perfect if you want to differenciate from others blogs
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Unbeknown to me my users were not able to login into their account for weeks. No more chances, endless trouble, disabled and deleted.
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just what i wanted! thanks guys
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works great – immediately stopped the flood of user registration spam I had to deal with every day.
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This is the only thing that has stopped the spammers from overwhelming my buddypress site, thank you!
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