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Oopspam

OOPSpam is a privacy-friendly alternative to Akismet.

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.

Probably you were targeted if you got 400 spam comments per day. Check out OOPSpam.

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.

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...

Thanks for the link. I didn't know the developer could prevent reCAPTCHA from appearing.

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.

Yep There are privacy-friendly alternatives like OOPSpam API you could integrate to any comment systems.

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.

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 captcha like OOPSpam API which is privacy-friendly and accessible as submission are simple analyzed in the backend without interacting with the user. Just wanted to mention.

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.

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://oopspam.com

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. It all boils down to the fact what is your local law says about privacy, and how much you care about your vistiors' privacy.

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.