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4. Outsource. Use a ReCaptcha/Cloudflare filling service (usually just someone else manually typing these in). I won’t link, but search “ReCaptcha solver” and
by RileyJames 7y ago
4. Outsource. Use a ReCaptcha/Cloudflare filling service (usually just someone else manually typing these in).
I won’t link, but search “ReCaptcha solver” and you’ll find plenty.
It highlights just how broken the system is. It doesn’t stop determined spammers/devs, until the value of the task is lower than the cost to solve.
Considering it’s 50c USD per 1000....
- xur17 7y agoI've seriously considered doing exactly this. I've solved numerous challenges for Google this week alone.
- jabart 7y agoEveryone keeps bringing this up but unless you have something of monetary value on the other end, this won't happen. ReCaptcha and a few if statements has stopped all contact us form spam on our site. Same for other sites I help to manage, no one is paying 50 cents per a thousand contact us spam messages.
- ficklepickle 7y agoI found all my contact form spam was being sent superhumanly fast. Well under 10 seconds from initial page load. A user can't make it to the form and type a meaningful message that fast. Adding a short timeout eliminated my contact form spam. I also only allow JSON on the back end, so they must execute JS to even have a shot. This has allowed me to avoid blocking TOR exit nodes... So far anyway.