ReCaptcha Failure from China (users can't sign up)

[Fast Lane!]

Had a member tell me they could not get the sign up page to work but their friend could from outside of China.  A bit of digging shows that ReCaptcha (google based) may be blocked preventing anyone in China from getting past the sign-up page if it is used (including the invisible flavor which we use).  Thoughts?  @bfarber curious your thought on a fix in the core suite.

Discussions on this topic:

https://www.quora.com/Since-Google-reCAPTCHA-does-not-work-in-China-how-do-Chinese-websites-prevent-bots-and-denial-of-service-attacks

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recaptcha-google-in-china/

Thanks!

 

[bfarber]

The only "fix" would be to disable reCAPTCHA on your site. We can't control which services the Chinese government allows or disallows of course 🙂 

[CoffeeCake]

2 hours ago, bfarber said:

We can't control which services the Chinese government allows or disallows of course 🙂 

From the links provided and looking at Google's developer docs, it looks like there is a noted workaround. Using www.recaptcha.net instead of www.google.com as the domain:

https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/faq#can-i-use-recaptcha-globally

Taking a peek under the hood, it looks like IPS is hardcoding the domain.

[bfarber]

Fair enough, I've raised it internally.

[sychn]

Good to know there is a solution.