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The article is from 2007. The reality in 2024, alas, is that spambots long ago learnt to defeat these approaches. After trying several clever techniques like
by stevoski 3y ago
The article is from 2007.
The reality in 2024, alas, is that spambots long ago learnt to defeat these approaches.
After trying several clever techniques like the one in the article, we eventually and reluctantly added a CAPTCHA.
For a CAPTCHA, we are using Cloudflare’s Turnstile.
- spuz 3y agoInterestingly, the most recent comment on that post is from 2023 but when I tried to make a comment just now I got an error saying "Something is wrong with the spinner". According the the article the spinner is a hidden field that consists of an MD5 hash of The timestamp, The client’s IP address, The entry id of the blog entry being commented on, and A secret. This makes me wonder how a hash of the timestamp is verified? Does it generate MD5 hashes of the last hour or so of timestamps and authorise the post when one of them matches? How else would it know the exact timestamp used to generate the form submission?
- grishka 3y agoIn my own experience, no they haven't. Nothing really changed substantially. Unless the spam is targeted specifically at your website, the bots of 2024 are as stupid as they were in 2007.
- jgalt212 3y agoI agree. Unless you are a high value target, the spambots are going to be rather unsophisticated. e.g. most don't even run javascript.