Updated contact form protection

We’ve made a new feature live for all of our subscribers: your contact forms and booking forms now use a modern, privacy-focused replacement for reCAPTCHA.

Protecting your Light Blue account from bots is important, but there were a few drawbacks to using reCAPTCHA: asking your clients to solve CAPTCHAs isn’t a great experience for them, and reCAPTCHA is run by Google so that’s not great from a privacy point of view.

Cloudflare’s Turnstile solves these problems: it’s developed and run by a trustworthy company that runs a large part of the internet and it protects user privacy while also using the latest web browser technologies to reliably filter out bots.

Our beta testers have been using this replacement for reCAPTCHA for a while now without any issues, so we’ve now rolled this change out to all of our subscribers. You’ll see a Cloudflare box on your contact forms and booking forms, but in most cases your clients won’t need to do anything: it will automatically verify that they aren’t a bot. In some cases, they might have to tick a box that triggers some more tests that verify that they’re a real human, but that’s a lot simpler than the previous reCAPTCHA experience.