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reCAPTCHA apparently doesn't stop bots well at all. When I published a brand new site, I got thousands of bot sign-ups in the first couple weeks. reCAPTCHA app
by jchook 7y ago
reCAPTCHA apparently doesn't stop bots well at all.
When I published a brand new site, I got thousands of bot sign-ups in the first couple weeks. reCAPTCHA apparently had no effect on stopping them. The bots signed-up with real user emails, causing my site to send unsolicited email to them, which affected my domain's email reputation significantly.
I rolled my own invisible CAPTCHA and immediately stopped ALL the bot traffic.
- folkhack 7y agoThis is 100% accurate. There is no way to stop bots through reCAPTCHA, doesn't matter the version. It's honestly trivial and can be done with even the most basic web automation skillset. Rolling your own CAPTCHA is a fantastic option, because folks like 2captcha are never going to take the time to integrate against a one-off solution. When you do something like that you drastically increase the barrier by introducing the need for a reverse engineering skillset to bypass your unique solution... and that skillset is expensive lemme tell ya ;)