Removed SweetCaptcha plugin as it was suddenly bloated with ads en malware.

Posted by acidjunk on July 3, 2015

SweetCaptcha is a free CAPTCHA service that offers to match “sweet” images instead of making you recognize distorted digits and characters. It’s a fun captcha service where a user has to solve a small puzzle by dragging the correct icon to another icon.

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It worked flawlessly for the last couple of years in my previous wordpress blog but it looks liked they changed their business model somewhere in juni; creating a popup for first time users/visitors of my blog with some really nasty malware download links. When I first encountered it myself I thought my blog was defaced; but after some googling I found a lot of people with the same experience.

An excellent writeup of what they do can be found here

So I decided to remove sweetcaptcha and use another captcha solution instead.