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> The only "risk" is that in the future spammers might start using more sophisticated spambots You’re also making your website unusable for people with Javascr
by avian 7y ago
> The only "risk" is that in the future spammers might start using more sophisticated spambots
You’re also making your website unusable for people with Javascript blocked or disabled in their browsers.
- mpol 7y agoIn the context of the question, that is not relevant. reCAPTCHA requires JavaScript as well. The question is about an alternative to reCAPTCHA. Both methods use JavaScript. I do understand where you are coming from though. And I also think this alternative is better in this regard. reCAPTCHA loads JavaScript from a third-party domain. With JavaScript spamfilters you are loading them from the first-party domain.
- ChrisSD 7y agoreCaptcha has a noscript alternative with iframes and checkboxes. Once completed you have to manually copy an authorisation string to a field and submit it.
- mpol 7y agoThat I didn't know. I don't remember ever seeing it, I suppose it is not used much?
- killahpriest 7y agoI don't think the noscript alternative works anymore. I get this message "Please enable JavaScript to get a reCAPTCHA challenge." https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo
- ChrisSD 7y agoHuh, last time I hit a cloudflare website on Tor it directed me to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/fallback?k=.. https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/fallback?k=... Perhaps that's just a cloudflare thing.
- IgorPartola 7y agoWhy stop there? I block HTML on all websites. Can’t show me ads if HTML is blocked. I also usually browse the web through an Ethernet connection. Don’t trust WiFi. And to make it more secure, my cables only have three wires in them. Less wires means fewer places for hackerz to hide.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't do this here.
- dageshi 7y agoI can't think of any reason why js would be disabled in a browser other than by personal choice? In which case you're making the website unusuable for yourself.
- rahuldottech 7y agoIt's often disabled by people who use screen readers, or by users who care about their privacy. If your regular website (not a webapp) doesn't work without JS, then you're failing as a dev.