Yep this is a global option in /admin/settings/user#default-user-settings
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Following the mention of Playthru here, I found another anti-spam tool that I think is better than Playthru. It's more user-friendly and looks really nice.
More about it at visualCaptcha. Demo of the Node implementation is available here. GitHub page is here.
Plugins woo