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Provide an option to disable ReCaptcha
Please provide an option to disable ReCaptcha (or switch to other CAPTCHAs). Not every site admin is happy to support this data collection of Google.
Thanks for your suggestion.
This requires a plugin system so we can have different captcha modules to handle the logic. A plugin system will be built shortly.
I found some code that tests for "RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY" in app.config. However, despite me removing (or rather, commenting out) all RECAPTCHA-related options, I still get an error displayed in the form for comments saying "Error: Invalid Key".
It's not enough to comment out those options. The forms will still try to display the captcha, and fail at doing so. See forms.py. As I said, we need some kind of architecture to switch between captchas, and I guess it'll be best to use the already-planned plugin system for this.
However, if you want to get going in the meantime without a captcha, try commenting out the corresponding lines in forms.py, as well as in the templates that render those captchas.
I would suggest getting rid of recaptcha alltogether. The only reason I introduced it in 3d6049fae1bd1800985acb24f93f761578235aad was that I wanted to stop an ongoing spam wave immediately and using the built-in WTForms recaptcha support seemed like the quickest way. I think that (at least until dudel becomes a lot more popular than it is now) a simple math captcha or something similar would suffice. Or maybe we could have a look at https://github.com/agoravoting/flask-captcha.
I'd be fine with quickly changing it to something easy and later adding options. I have to admit, I like the "I'm no robot" captchas ;) (because of the magic behind it, you know)
However, if you want to get going in the meantime without a captcha, try commenting out the corresponding lines in forms.py, as well as in the templates that render those captchas.
That worked for now, thanks.
I agree that a locally-admin-configurable question would probably provide a pretty strong (sufficiently strong, for most small installations) protection already.