> First, of course, you have cloudflare and recaptcha, which are free and very efficient, as the author say. Recaptcha has been almost useless, in my experienc

> First, of course, you have cloudflare and recaptcha, which are free and very efficient, as the author say. Recaptcha has been almost useless, in my experience. If you read the spam logs, you'll quickly learn about the spam software they (claim to) use to bypass Recaptcha, because that's what they end up promoting. I started tagging in logs if Recaptcha had validated on messges, and sure enough these spam posts had all successfully passed it. Great opportunity to rip out more Google dependencies from my website. I've found my own custom written filters to be vastly more effective than Recaptcha. Lots of the bots are running full Chrome with JS, lots of HeadlessChrome being used lately. The fact that they're using HeadlessChrome is something that makes them easy to detect, ahem.