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Re:Ask HN: ReCAPTCHA Alternatives? by viraptor on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:00PM (#20784939)
Have you tried starting with a completely trivial solution to see if you have anyone targeting you at all? By trivial, I mean "write number four in this text field". If you get only full-auto spam bots, that should be enough.
Re:Ask HN: ReCAPTCHA Alternatives? by Gaelan on Saturday August 24, 2019 @12:51AM (#20785300)
Almost certainly don't—I kinda assumed something that trivial would get handled by full-auto bots by now, but maybe not.
Re:Ask HN: ReCAPTCHA Alternatives? by luckylion on Saturday August 24, 2019 @01:38AM (#20785457)
I haven't seen bot spam go past trivial things. A text field name="url" that's hidden via css gets filled by them. They don't execute JavaScript. Granted, those solutions won't work forever, once they are widely adapted, bots will adapt too, and they obviously won't stop targeted spam.