Your sign-up form is a weapon

Re:Your sign-up form is a weapon by latexr on Thursday April 02, 2026 @03:32AM (#47611156)

> useless CAPTCHAS (any sufficiently advanced bot can get around any CAPTCHA anyway). We solved this at our startup by (…). Of course this is easy to get around if the bot knows what you’re doing

So, by your own admission, your solution doesn’t get around the “sufficiently advanced bot” problem.

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Re:Your sign-up form is a weapon by stanac on Thursday April 02, 2026 @04:24AM (#47611514)

I added custom captcha (simple math as slightly distorted pictures with audio alternative) on one of my forms, it prevents ~80% of spam submissions. less than 1% of spam passes, other ~20% are blocked on key words (like "sex", "passion", etc...).

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Re:Your sign-up form is a weapon by latexr on Thursday April 02, 2026 @07:00AM (#47612693)

Not sure why you’re telling me that. I’m not criticising CAPTCHA, my parent comment was.

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Re:Your sign-up form is a weapon by stanac on Thursday April 02, 2026 @03:31PM (#47619090)

I am just confirming that CAPTCHA still works against most basic bots.

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Re:Your sign-up form is a weapon by znnajdla on Thursday April 02, 2026 @04:25AM (#47611523)

Yes and I don’t claim to solve the problem completely. It’s an impossible to solve problem which BigTech wants you to pay mafia protection money to “solve”.

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Re:Your sign-up form is a weapon by latexr on Thursday April 02, 2026 @06:59AM (#47612685)

The point I was making is that you’re criticising something while suggesting something else even easier to bypass.

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