onara

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by onara 6mo ago
Oopspam
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Introducing: Domain Reputation Watch(oopspam.com)
1 points by onara 3y ago|0 comments
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by onara 5y ago
OOPSpam is a privacy-friendly alternative to Akismet.
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by onara 5y ago
At early stage you are not going to get spam anyway. Once it grows (and i hope it does) you will get fare share of spam. As you said at that point you could check solutions like Akismet, OOPSpam.
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by onara 5y ago
Probably you were targeted if you got 400 spam comments per day. Check out OOPSpam.
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by onara 5y ago
As for spam from the contact forms, you could look into integrating with https://www.oopspam.com/ . It returns score similar to reCaptcha in addition to the outputs from different analyses.
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by onara 5y ago
such a mess. As @j3th9n mentioned, reCAPTCHA v3 does have challenge and you can invoke it based on a score. https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3#programmatic...
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by onara 5y ago
Thanks for the link. I didn't know the developer could prevent reCAPTCHA from appearing.
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by onara 5y ago
That is not entirely true. If your threshold is low then it appears and you get accessibility issue. Not to mention tracking hell of out the users.
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by onara 5y ago
Yep There are privacy-friendly alternatives like OOPSpam API you could integrate to any comment systems.
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by onara 5y ago
reCAPTCHA is an accessibility and privacy nightmare. There are better alternatives like OOPSpam API that gives a score and works in the backend so no interaction with the user.
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Show HN: OOPSpam – Spam and Bot Filter API(oopspam.com)
1 points by onara 5y ago|0 comments
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by onara 5y ago
I love the points you made. There so many services solves reCaptcha. Saw 2captcha yesterday on reddit, it's indeed unethical. reCaptcha is privacy nightmare. For contact forms and comment systems there are other alternatives other than
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by onara 6y ago
Mislabeled images. This is going to be common and who knows how they are planning to use that data. Many websites don't need captcha anyway. They could go with options like OOPSpam API and silently flag spam based on Spam Score.
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by onara 6y ago
anonymous comments are hard to moderate as more your product grows spammers will come. At this stage, I don't think you will have a major problem with spam but down the road you will get plenty of them. Check out solution like https:&
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by onara 6y ago
While I agree Disqus solves a lot problem as a comment system. They certainly harvest visitor's data. There are many privacy-friendly comment systems as well as a 3rd party anti-spam service like OOPSpam that do not collect user data.
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by onara 6y ago
I love the project but consider integrating oopspam ( https://oopspam.com ) instead of Akismet. Akismet is basically adding a tracking. People from the EU cannot use it with Akismet.
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Show HN: Anti-Spam API for your contact from and comment system(oopspam.com)
1 points by onara 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A powerful spam filter for any content exchange (forms, forums, blogs)(oopspam.com)
1 points by onara 7y ago|0 comments