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How else do you propose sites combat spam and bots? As someone who has had many of my free services completely ruined by spammers, Captcha was the only way I co
by ehsankia 6y ago
How else do you propose sites combat spam and bots? As someone who has had many of my free services completely ruined by spammers, Captcha was the only way I could save them.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoI've found Captcha is an overkill strategy that also demonstrates poor customer service as you are both annoying your user and selling their data to Google. Often site-specific form validation is more than adequate to prevent bot registrations. Until you hit the level of "people are scripting for your site specifically" level, rudimentary data validation will catch almost every bot.
- ehsankia 6y ago> customer service Well honestly, "1-person hobby project" doesn't really have "customer service". Though I work hard to help anyone with honest feature requests and issues, there's still no SLO on any of this. I have unfortunately hit people scripting for my site directly, which is where I had to rely on Captcha. It's unfortunate but bad actors have honestly ruined so much of the internet...