Playtcha.com - The fun CAPTCHA

What it does

Playtcha is a privacy-first CAPTCHA. Instead of squinting at traffic lights so Google can fingerprint them, your users play a 5-second mini-game — eight in the rotation, randomized per load, mobile-tuned, server-verified with single-use JWTs. Zero tracking. Zero telemetry. GDPR-clean by design. Drop-in for reCAPTCHA: one script tag, one verify call. Free until 5,000 verifications/month. €4.99 after. No credit card needed.

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